Press kit Mons 2015

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Press kit Mons 2015

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Mons 2015
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GROWING
TOGETHER
In 2015, the beauty, intelligence and creativity of Europe will
reside in Mons for twelve months. For the citizens of the Mons region,
the Borinage and Saint-Ghislain, this is a unique opportunity to make
a qualitative leap forward, to grow together and to improve their future.
The path leading to this culminating moment has been a long one, but
today we can be proud and happy! We can be proud, because the
programme, even if not finalized yet, is already magnificent: 300 events,
5,000 artists, 400 organisations mobilised, 1,200 active ambassadors,
22 partner institutions, several dozen participating cities… An intense
mobilisation of talent and creativity.
EDITORIAL
ELIO DI RUPO
OFFICIAL MAYOR
MINISTER OF STATE
We can be happy for our citizens, who will be spoiled for choice
during this exceptional year, and for our businesses, our retailers and
our community life. Becoming European Capital of Culture means
receiving a tremendous economic and social springboard which will
enable us to leap higher and further forwards. A powerful process has
been set in motion, from which Mons-Borinage will be the first to benefit for decades, thanks to the investments that have been made and the
new development tools that have been put in place.
Mons is changing, Mons is progressing, Mons is building its future!
I wish to express my warm thanks to the women and men ‘in the
shadows’ who have turned this ambitious project into reality. I am especially keen for people to realise how much dedication everyone has
shown, and with what talent and perseverance. The greatest masterpiece of Mons 2015 is undoubtedly the success of this fantastic effort.
Finally, I wish everyone – from the child who still has everything
to discover to the oldest inquisitive onlooker or art-lover – a wonderful
year of culture in Mons.
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WIDESPREAD
ENTHUSIASM
GUY QUADEN
PRESIDENT
OF THE MONS 2015 FOUNDATION
In 2015, Mons and its region will hold aloft the banner of European culture. The challenge is considerable, not just in cultural terms,
but on the material plane too. The public interest foundation formed to
oversee this year as a Capital of Culture has received the support of
many partners who have joined us in the adventure. The Foundation’s
founding members – the Federation Wallonia-Brussels, the Walloon
Region, the Province of Hainaut and the City of Mons – have, through
their financial support, made it possible to give the project its rightful
European scale. This support was recently supplemented by the
award of the Melina Mercouri Prize by the European Commission.
Our official sponsors, ING, the National Lottery and the nonprofit organisation ‘Club Mons 2015 entreprises’ are also major
partners who have been with us ever since the project took shape.
Alongside them, numerous private and institutional partners – more
than twenty of them – have made their own contributions, reflecting
the enthusiasm and interest aroused by the project at the national
level as well as at the local and regional level.
On behalf of the Foundation’s Board of Directors, I would like to
thank them for this.
The convergence of all these efforts should allow the Belgian
public as a whole and the foreign visitors whom we expect in large
numbers to enjoy a unique cultural experience in Mons throughout the
year 2015.
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A CITY
IN TRANSFORMATION
YVES VASSEUR
COMMISSIONER,
MONS 2015
It’s true. We took a risk by taking our time, desiring to do things
properly and opting for the wisdom of maturity. And now we’re there.
The musicians are backstage, the actors are treading the boards, the
poets have put pen to paper and the sculptors are wielding hammer
and chisel. In the streets of the city, strange characters are running
amok, pursued by a strange machine that films them from every
angle. The noises of a city in transformation carry right up to the treetops. We will devise fantastic festivals, kindle the fires of celebration,
set up the bright lights. We will open new venues, sample their
distinctive atmospheres together, experience long-term urban adventures. To quote Léo Ferré’s vision of the Golden Age, ‘We shall have
bread, brown as girls under the golden sun. We shall have wine, wine
that sparkles even in sleep. We shall have blood in our white veins,
and Monday will usually be Sunday.’ (*)
The invitations have been sent out: to the people of Mons, Belgium, Europe, the planet. To young, old, students, teachers, children,
parents allowed. At Café Europa, they are already meeting. Different
generations, different nations, all together. Mons is now on the map
of the world, enriched by its partners who are joyfully creating an
amazing profusion of projects, almost all of which, like ours, relate to
our main theme of the encounter between culture and technology
as a guarantee of a productive future. Mons is a new and open city,
emboldened by the large-scale support of its citizens for the adventure of 2015.
Transformation. Artists are already pouring into the construction
sites before the concrete has even dried. Cranes are lifting in the roofbeams, painters are splashing colour around, and above all, people
are talking, eager to discover, share and create. Because a European
year of culture means more dialogue, more mutual support and
respect, and more togetherness. 2015 looks set to be an exceptional
year, but it represents but a step towards a transfigured future. A
Golden Age?
(*) L’âge d’or – Léo Ferré
© Mara de Sario
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In 2015, after Antwerp, Brussels and Bruges, Mons will become
the European Capital of Culture, the first time a Walloon city has had
the honour.
As main sponsor, ING Belgium has chosen to be closely associated with this great cultural event.
A WORD
BY ING
RIK VANDENBERGHE
CEO ING BELGIQUE
Art and culture are highly prized at ING. As well as possessing
a magnificent collection of artworks, ING Belgium supports many
initiatives that help form the artistic and cultural scene in Belgium.
Next to our exhibitions Yves Saint-Laurent, A visionary, Birth Day
by Lieve Blancquaert, To the Point, the neo-impressionist portrait and
the current exhibition The Power of Object(s) in the ING Art Center
at the Place Royale, we also gladly support major events such as Art
Brussels or the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth.
By choosing to be a partner of Mons 2015, we wish to promote
art and culture and make them accessible for all, in line with our commitment to being a universal bank and our support of the economy.
ING Belgium also wishes to show its desire to participate in
the economic prosperity of a city and a region. This partnership also
clearly shows that we want to anchor ourselves in the region of Mons,
because we believe it is very important to support the economy.
We wholeheartedly hope that, thanks to Mons 2015, the city
and the surrounding region will be able to flourish in socio-economic
terms and take advantage of the positive effects that will result in
terms of culture, tourism and the media.
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THE METAMORPHOSIS –
MONS 2015:
THE BIGGER PICTURE
Infrastructure
Socioeconomic reconversion
Art and Creation
2015 ways of participating
The project of an expanded territory
Digital
Parties and public spaces
THE PROGRAMMING
Exhibitions and museums
Parties, Gastronomy & Art in city
Theatre & Dance
Music
Literature
Fashion & Design
Digital
Youth
Home & Away
The Great 8 & The Great West
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INFORMATION
Practical information
The Foundation Mons 2015
Mons 2015: a sustainable project
I’m labeled Mons 2015. And you?
I’m partner. And you?
Our next meeting
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THE
METAMORPHOSIS
MONS 2015:
THE BIGGER PICTURE
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Meet Vincent van Gogh, St George, Daniel Libeskind and the citizens of Mons at
Mons 2015, a massive, cultural celebration offering more than 300 key events that will
amplify and resonate the voices of the citizens of Mons. The momentum of our European Capital of Culture 2015 will unlock new paths digitally and through collaboration with 18 partner cities in Belgium and France. It is also an integral part of a wider
socio-economic redevelopment project, putting Mons and its surrounding region on
the map as a “Creative Valley”.
The idea of Mons as a European Capital of Culture took root back in 2002-2003. Who
could have imagined at that time the extent to which the barriers would be broken down in
10 years’ time between the cultural, social and economic sectors? At the dawn of the technological revolution, societies are called upon to break barriers and innovate, otherwise
they risk losing out in the marketplace of the new century and the globalisation process.
Mons was already at the time the Cultural Capital of Wallonia, and opted to develop
it’s cultural and creative side. The city will inaugurate five new interconnected museums,
providing a focal point for its art and heritage collections.
Mons Memorial Museum will open in ‘Machine-à-Eau’, a stunning backdrop of brick,
steel and glass created by the Mons-born architect Joseph Hubert and built in 1870-1871.
The building will become the centre of a new “Memorial Region”, a living space that will
extend beyond the city centre, including in particular, the Saint Symphorien Military Cemetery.
UNESCO-listed heritage sites will be framed by other museums: the neolithic flint mines
of Spiennes, Le SILEX’S – Spiennes: One of the eldest and biggest archaeological sites
in Europe, recognised by UNESCO in 2000. The centre will explain all the aspects of this
archaeological site. The belfry: Constructed between 1661 and 1672, the Mons belfry was
recognised by UNESCO in 1999. It is the only baroque belfry in Europa and has 365 steps,
is 87 metre high and has 49 clocks. In 2015 it will welcome a centre for interpretation about
the history of this remarkable construction. Le Musée du doudou: new museum opening in
the city centre of Mons, dedicated to the UNESCO protected the annual popular “ Doudou”
festival, the unmistakable Ducasse of Mons.
With two brand-new concert halls (Arsonic and Alhambra), the extension of the
Mundaneum and an across-the-board renovation programme, including Art Nouveau pearl
‘La Maison Losseau’, the city is getting nicely prepared and is bursting with activity, as
it will stage a hundred artistic and cultural events in 2015.
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INFRA-
STRUCTURE
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OLD CITY, NEW CITY:
DISCOVER MONS FOR A CULTURAL CITYTRIP
OR FOR A SHOPPING SPREE
Belfroi
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Mons is easily accessible by train, with a
direct connection from the Brussels airport and
only 40 minutes from Brussels’ South station.
Visitors coming by train notice it straight away.
On one side of the tracks lays the historical
part of the city, Mons Intramuros with charming
narrow streets and the belfry.
On the other side of the tracks they
find the new city. Conceived by the renowned
American architect Daniel Libeskind to look
like a ship’s hull ploughing the waves, the new
conference centre MICX is the beating heart of
a mixed district being built, targeting business
travel services and catering for an increasing
number of firms involved in the new creative
economy. The handful of start-ups launched
10 years ago under the leadership of the
University of Mons are now 100 or so firms
offering employment to over 1,000 people,
many of them from the province of Hainaut.
Mons houses flagship companies such as
Google, Microsoft and IBM, but also rising
SMEs, partly active in the booming cultural
industry of video games. The Digital Dome
brings together many non-market stakeholders, while the Technocité technological training
centre has updated the skills of some 50,000
students over the past 10 years.
Another kind of tourism is also being
targeted thanks to the redevelopment of
“Les Grands Prés” Shopping Centre and its
extension: a 35,000 square metres Ikea and a
home-decoration-oriented “retail park”. 2 million shoppers are expected every year. Impact
studies show that 10 to 15% of the visitors will
spend the day in Mons to do some sightseeing and enjoy the gastronomy and offer of
shops, restaurants, hotels and cultural actors in
the city centre.
Important dates and addresses:
Opening party : 24.01.15
Café Europa: 12.03>19.12.15
Openingweekend ‘Pôle Muséal’,
‘Arsonic’ en ‘Art in the city’: 04 + 05.04.2015
5 new museum and musiccenter
Arsonic are opening their doors for
everybody. A unique moment to discover
them all during one animated weekend.
(10:00>18:00 – free entrance).
From april 7th 2015 open from
Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Mons Memorial Museum :
Boulevard Sainctelette – 7000 Mons
Artothèque :
Rue Claude de Bettignies, 3 – 7000 Mons
Site du Beffroi :
Rue des Gades – 7000 Mons
Musée du Doudou :
Rue du 11 novembre – 7000 Mons
SILEX’s :
Rue du Point du Jour – 7022 Spiennes
More information
www.polemuseal.mons.be
Arsonic :
Rue de Nimy, 138 – 7000 Mons
The new and old city will be seamlessly
connected thanks to a new integrated mobility
plan and an innovative Santiago Calatrava-designed station, flanked by a pathway (now
under construction). Calatrava and Libeskind:
two world-renowned architects simultaneously
involved in the Ground Zero Master plan for
New York, also meet in Mons.
In_Out offers an artistic perspective on the construction works during
the three year preparing Mons 2015
resulting in a selection of pictures that
have autonomous strength and form a
thight series representing the different
construction sites.
www.inoutproject.be
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socio-
economic
reconversion
MONS IS FOCUSING ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF
CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES TO BECOME A
HUB TURNING ITS REGION INTO A “CREATIVE VALLEY”
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MICX
© Lebeskind
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Consequently, Mons is spreading an
irresistibly positive dynamic process over
its entire territory, extended to cover the
Borinage, the province of Hainaut and 18
partner cities, from Lille to Mechelen, as
described below. Its aim is to become attractive in structural terms, in order to aggregate
companies operating in the new creative
economy and, more generally, to attract and
hold onto talent. Just like Bilbao, Lille, Liverpool, Marseilles and the Ruhr region, Mons
is therefore applying the main principles of
the “Creative City”, for which the American
economist Richard Florida provided a formal
setting. The plan to transform the Mons
hinterland into a Creative Valley, is part and
parcel of the new Walloon socio-economic
development programme, Creative Wallonia.
This programme is also focused on the development of Cultural and Creative Industries
(the well-known CCI’s), and, more generally
speaking, on building up the multidisciplinary,
collective and collaborative-driven creative
economy. They are already generating a two
billion turnover worldwide for the CCI’s and,
in Europe 6% of GDP and 8 million direct
jobs. Designed to facilitate the emergence
of a new ad hoc infrastructure and a flurry of
creative activity not witnessed since the postwar era, Mons 2015 can be counted upon as
a powerful mediation and mediatisation tool
for this integrated growth and redevelopment
strategy.
CLUB MONS 2015 ENTREPRISES
2015 companies! This is the symbolic goal set by the
Mons 2015 Enterprises’ Club to unite the economic fabric of
the region around the European Capital of Culture. Our members believe that Mons 2015 is a great tool for the mediation
and publicity of an even larger project: the development and
socio-economical regeneration of Mons and its region. Join the
Club!
CULTURALLIA 2015
B2B INTERNATIONAL FORUM
CULTURE & BUSINESS
MICX CONGRESS CENTRE / MONS
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© All rights reserved
15.10 > 16.10.15
At the occasion of the international Forum CULTURALLIA
2015, a business speed dating will be organized between the
cultural operators, the representatives of the cultural industries
and those of the technologies of information and communication. 2 days and 16 face-to-face meetings to initiate the
reconversion of Mons into a “Creative Valley”.
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Art
and
Creation
AN AMBITIOUS CULTURAL POLICY,
FOCUSED ON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS,
PERFORMING ARTS AND CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
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Théâtre le Manège
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The European Capital of Culture counters the strong criticism of the “Florida model”
(the economic vibrancy of cities hinges on
their ability to attract and keep the “creative
classes”) that its typically American business
approach clashes with the European tradition.
While this model is elsewhere used as an
excuse for unravelling state support to the
cultural sector, even if questioning it may
be relevant, Mons invests in culture in a
different way as the centre of its socio-economic policy. The aim is to empower citizens,
instead of undergoing a process of gentrification, while subjecting its citizens to market
forces under the garb of enhancing their
creativity.
an international exhibition with a refreshing
approach. In the case of Verlaine, the link
between his most striking verses and the institution where he wrote them after shooting
Rimbaud, Mons prison, will be beautifully put
in perspective. Another flagship exhibition will
be focused on St. George, the patron saint
of England, Mons and many other places,
vanquishing evil. Vox Luminis, one of the
finest choral groups, will be paying tribute
to Orlando di Lasso, who wrote some of the
finest Renaissance polyphonies in Mons, Italy
and Germany. Those four figureheads are the
pillars of a vibrant programme extending to all
fields of traditional artistic endeavour.
Mons 2015 puts four international
figureheads in the spotlights who’s creativity
and artistic development found inspiration in
Mons. These important men and women who
shaped the region’s history and collective
unconscious will be given a scrupulous
artistic treatment. Van Gogh, who rose as
an artist in the Borinage, is the subject of
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS
Van Gogh au Borinage
BAM (Beaux-Arts Mons), 25.01>17.05.15
Mons Superstar
Anciens Abattoirs, 24.01>12.04.15
La Chine Ardente, Sculptures Monumentales
Contemporaines
Anciens Abattoirs, 04.07>04.10.15
Atopolis
Manège de Sury, 13.06>18.10.15
Une Semaine Avec Roland De Lassus,
04.10>11.10.15
Une Semaine Avec Jacques Du Broeucq
10.10>18.10.15
L’homme, le dragon et la mort
Mac’s, 18.10>17.01.16
Verlaine, Cellule 252
BAM (Beaux-Arts Mons),17.10>24.01.16
The focus will also be on premiering Belgian and international
artists. Those whose virtues have been extolled in Avignon and
on the world’s most prestigious stages – the likes of Pommerat,
Cassiers, Murgia, Martinelli, Vandekeybus and Van Dormael,
whose follow up to Kiss and Cry, unanimously praised as one
of the most original and deeply moving productions in recent
years, is eagerly awaited.
WORLD PREMIERES
Philippe Blasband – Tramway des enfants
Théâtre Le Manège, 10.02>13.02.15 - 20:00
Michèle Noiret – Radioscopie
Théâtre Le Manège, 12.03>14.03.2015 - 20:00
Guy Cassiers – Les passions humaines
Théâtre le Manège, 21.04>23.04.15
Denis Marleau/Stéphanie Jamsin/Dominique Pauwels/
Musiques Nouvelles – L’autre Hiver
Théâtre le Manège, 07.05>10.05.15 - 20:00
Jean-Michel Van Den Eeyden - Amnésia
Maison Folie – 16.03.15>18.03.15
Marco Martinell – Le c(h)œur montois
Théâtre Royal/Jardins du Beffroi, 01.07>04.07.15
Carte blanche à Wim Vandekeybus
Wajdi Mouawad – Le Dernier jour de sa vie 7 Tragédies de Sophocle
Théâtre le Manège, 28.06.2015 & 30.06.2015
Carte blanche à Joel Pommerat
Théâtre le Manège, 16.09>18.09.15 - 20:00
Frédéric Flamand – La cité miroir
Lotto Mons Expo, 24.11>27.11.15
Michele Anne De Mey/Jaco Van Dormael/
Collectif Kiss&Cry – Cold Blood
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“Associated artists” are given a free
hand and invited to create and share their
artistic vision with the citizens of Mons in
one or more artistic projects, two mention two: trend-setting fashion designer
Jean-Paul Lespagnard to the singer Marc
Pinilla from the band Suarez, who rose to
mainstream fame with The Voice.
Carl Norac is a Mons poet who loves
his city as much as he loves words. Whether
at the post office, the courthouse or in your
very own living room, Carl will tell you stories
in the dark. He is to reveal his own collection
of illustrations for the first time during the Fête
du Livre Illustré (Festival of Illustrated Books)
in Jemappes, as well as filling in as editor of
the literary review L’Impertinente.
THE ASSOCIATED ARTISTS: AN
EXPLOSIVE RECIPE
Marc Pinilla, lead singer of Suarez, is
not only a coach on The Voice: he also trains
young writer-composers and audiovisual
technicians in the art of musical composition
here in Mons. He is also creating an off-thewall musical spectacle with Olivier Monssens:
together the pair will open Pandora’s box and
heat the made-in-Belgium hit factory all the
way up…
Mons 2015 is a dream that has been
painstakingly realised by hundreds of local
as well as international artists. Among them,
six major personalities have agreed to design
unique adventures for the citizens of Mons,
each with their own art and artistic flair. The
supporting artists are not just the cherry on
the cake: they are the baking tin, the cake
mix and the whisk that make the recipe so
explosive. Cooking up here we have Lespagnard, Mouawad, Flamand, Norac, Pinilla and
Bouyagui. Magic!
In 2011 the Lebanese-Quebecois
playwright Wajdi Mouawad gave a wonderful gift to 50 pupils from home and abroad.
Five years of meeting people and travelling
to learn to write, read, count and speak.
Ultimately, to think independently. Is this not
the aim of the Seven Tragedies of Sophocles,
being presented in their entirety during Mons
2015 by Wajdi? A project as ambitious as it is
generous!
Fanny Bouyagui, of the Art Point M
collective, is everywhere - ambassador for
Lille 3000 at la Maison Folie, sunflower
horticulturalist at the Grand-Place, and above
all, commander-in-chief of the great poetic
demonstration of Mons Idéal, where colourful
slogans abound. She is paving the way
for the new generation, and towards 2016.
Subversive!
Belgian choreographer Frédéric
Flamand draws inspiration from Google on
Paper. What if all the knowledge of the world
were gathered into one place? Such was the
utopia of the two creators of the Mundaneum.
For its reopening, La Cité Miroir (The Mirror
City) calls our utopias into question with a
mixture of video and dance and a hundred
dancers. Taking place at the Lotto Mons
Expo.
Jean-Paul Lespagnard, Belgian
fashion designer and star of the catwalk, is
ready with his kit for the perfect trendy. He
is also running fashion workshops for men
and women from 7 to 70; whether you’re into
metal or platinum, the Opening Party will be
shining bright thanks to Jean-Paul. Customise
your poncho or scarf JPL style…
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Jean-Paul Lespagnard
© Laetitia Bica
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HOME & AWAY
Mons 2015 is more than a season dedicated to highlighting the elite achievements
of the artistic world and inviting the world in
Home & away / Ailleurs en Folies. Citizens are
closely involved and make of this project their
own. Hence the top-down approach to Mons
2015, justifying the aforementioned political,
economic and cultural perspective, is underpinned by an equally powerful bottom-up
approach, where citizens play a central role.
Ailleurs en Folie-Lille
28.01 > 01.02 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie-Montréal/Québec
17.09 > 27.09 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie-London
19.02 > 22.02 – Maison Folie
lille3000/Renaissance
26.09.15 > 17.01.16 – Lille
Festival VIA
12.03 > 25.03.15 – Mons intramuros
+ Maubeuge
Nuit Blanche/Renaissance
03.10.15 – Bruxelles
Ailleurs en Folie-Casablanca
16.04 > 26.04 – Maison Folie
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Ailleurs en Folie Londres,
Estate © All rights reserved
Une semaine avec Roland de Lassus
Ailleurs en Folie-Milan
07.05 > 17.05 – Maison Folie
Une semaine avec Jacques Du Broeucq
+ Château de Boussu
Ville en Jeux
Ailleurs en Folie-Tokyo
15.10 > 25.10 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie-Melbourne
18.06 > 28.06 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie-Pilsen
12.11 > 15.11 – Maison Folie
Festival au Carré
Le Festin
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2015 ways
of participating
MONS 2015 BELONGS FIRST
AND FOREMOST TO ITS INHABITANTS AS
A RESULT OF THE INTENSE ARTISTIC AND CIVIC INPUT
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Ateliers Hirmoi Hotel
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The “inclusive” dimension of the
project is reflected in the entire Mons 2015
programming. International visitors will be
able to experience the results of a long and
painstaking process, such as the “Great 8”
that offers citizens and associations in the
municipalities of the Greater Mons area an
opportunity to join forces in proposing and
developing their own projects, based on
a reflection on the territory, memory and
identity. “Participatory democracy” is indeed
being deployed but without the grandstanding or naive optimism by which it is often
justified. The idea is to find the right group
dynamic, poised between the desires of
individuals and the expertise of artistic teams
in order to deliver meaningful outstanding
results that will be offered to the general
public during a week-long series of festivities.
The 12 mayors of the Borinage region have
in turn agreed to have associations in their
municipalities participate in similar projects.
This will also involve three days of festivities
in each municipality to showcase the works
of the people living there. All against the
background of the renovation of Van Gogh’s
homes in Wasmes and Colfontaine, archaeological findings in Quaregnon, the multicultural diversity of Hensies and the rich folkloric
resources in Quévy. What this mainly involves
is embarking upon a new kind of collaborative venture which has every chance of
being perpetuated as a partnership between
individuals, associations, public authorities
and between the municipalities themselves,
as is now the case between Honnelles and
Quiévrain.
This more inclusive dimension is also
part of the strategy of the cultural institutions in Mons. It is impossible not to mention
initiatives such as the Grande Clameur by the
contemporary ensemble Musiques Nouvelles,
and 700 amateurs singing Orlando di Lasso
on the steps of St. Waudru collegiate church,
or Fait maison, Autour de la Table and Les
infiltrés. Committed actors will recite their
favourite texts in the homes of locals, undertake first readings with them or risk reading
out quirky tests in schools. Above all others,
young people involved in the Mons Idéal
project will be invited to work hands-on.
In the end, they are the ones called upon
to give meaning to all this cultural stir over
the next 20 years. Workshops on “political
slogans and posters”, slam poetry courses,
conferences with activists, film debates, philosophy tasters, the creation of a “demonstrator’s kit”: every effort is made to help them
take charge of the city and their destinies as
well. It is once again all down to the public
relation efforts of the Mons 2015 teams,
targeted on retailers, schools, the corporate
sector, associations of all persuasions and
at all levels. And to draw from this a sense
of pride and commitment, together with new
principles for enhancing social cohesion,
involving not one but several cultures, less
hierarchy and more individual and collective
participation.
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2015 WAYS TO PARTICIPATE
La Phrase
14.12.14 > 19.12.15 – Mons intramuros
Grand Ouest Les gens…Ici
20.03 > 21.03.15 – Boussu
Mons Street reView
24.01 > 31.12.15 – mons2015.eu
Grand Ouest Van Gogh la folle légende,
24.04 > 26.04.15 – Colfontaine, charbonnage
des Marcasses
Song Lines, Fête d’ouverture
24.01.15 – Mons intramuros
Les infiltrés
02.02 > 30.10.15 – Mons Borinage
Faits maison
06.02 > 31.1.15 – Mons Intramuros
Mon(s) idéal - Ouverture
13.02 > 15.02.15 – Alhambra, Maison Folie
SlaMons & Friends : le slam dans tous ses
états par le Collectif EnV.I.E.S.
27.03 > 29.03.15 – Maison Folie
Tournoi interscolaire de slam poésie,
29.04.15 – Maison Folie
Autour de la Table & A la table des enfants,
Ville en jeu(x)
Le C(h)œur montois
de Marco Martinelli
01.07 > 07.07.15 – Théâtre Royal + Jardins
du Beffroi
La Grande clameur
04.10.15 – Parvis Sainte Waudru
Grand Ouest Sorcières, Bobottes
et compagnie
14.05.15 – Frameries
Grand Ouest Festival du folklore
06.06.15 – Quevy
Grand Ouest Si Jurbise m’était contée…
07.06.15 – Jurbise
Grand Ouest Hensies, village du monde
20.06.15 – Hensies
Grand Ouest Trésors des pyramides noires
04.07.15 – Quaregnon
Grand Ouest moneuse
15.08.15 – Quievrain, Honnelles
Grand Ouest Paul Cuvelier, les chemins
du merveilleux
19.09 > 20.09.15 – Lens
Grand Ouest Saint-Ghislain au fil de l’eau
17.10>18.10.15 – Saint-Ghislain
Grand Ouest Dour on ice
05.12 > 06.12.15 – Dour
La Cité Miroir - Frédéric Flamand
24.11 > 27.11.15 – Lotto Mons Expo
Ailleurs en Folie-Lille - Atelier culinaire
pour les enfants
Mon(s) idéa : En marche
27.11 > 29.11.15 – Alhambra,
Carré des Arts, Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie Londres - Feral Choir,
Phil Minton
19.02 > 20.02.15 – Maison Folie
Grand Huit La vie de château et les sens
28.04 > 03.05.15 – Ghlin
Grand Huit La licorne et le recyclage
11.05 > 17.05.15 – Hyon, Ciply, Mesvin
Grand Huit Voyages mystérieux
11.06 > 14.06.15 – Flénu, Jemappes
Grand Huit Sens dessus dessous
21.06 > 26.06.15 – Mons
Grand Huit L’eau et les fantômes
22.08 > 30.08.15 – Saint-Denis, Obourg, Havré
Grand Huit À travers champs, le vent
07.09 > 13.09.15 – Harmignies, Spiennes,
Villers-Saint-Ghislain, Harveng, Nouvelles,
Saint-Symphorien
Grand Huit Cuesmes 2015 mètres d’altitude
20.09 > 27.09.15 – Cuesmes
Grand Huit Épouvantails, marionnettes
et géants
07.10 > 10.10.15 – Nimy, Maisières
Ailleurs en Folie Londres - WORK IT,
WORKERS ! Let’s Get Physical, avec Tracey
20.02 > 22.02.15 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie Casablanca - Activités Clandestines avec Hassan Darsi
13.04 > 15.04.15 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie Casablanca - Workshop
Tissage avec Amina Agueznay
13.04 > 15.04.15 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie Casablanca – Workshop
Street art avec Aouina et Djamel Oulkaldi
14.04 > 16.04.15 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie Casablanca - Atelier
de design Zélige pour les enfants
18.04 > 21.04.15 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie Milan - Workshop
Experimental Negroni, avec M. Stocchetto
(Bar Basso)
Ailleurs en Folie Milan - Ateliers La Balera /
JP Lespagnard
Ailleurs en Folie Milan - Ateliers enfants
La Scaletta / JP Lespagnard
11.05 > 12.05.15 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie Melbourne - Ateliers de
Melbourne Danse Shuffle – Aubéline Barbieux
20.06 > 21.06.15 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie Montréal/Québec - Atelier de théâtre performatif et sonore
par la Cie Eau du bain
06.04 > 10.04.15 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie Tokyo - Ateliers Furoshiki
17.10 > 18.10.15 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie Tokyo - Ateliers Shogi
17.10 > 18.10.15 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie Tokyo - Ateliers Calligraphie
22.10 > 23.10.15 – Maison Folie
Ailleurs en Folie Tokyo - Ateliers Bande dessiné / Manga : Le Doudou et la danse
du dragon doré
15.09 > 09.10.15 – Maison Folie
Week-end en Folie Carnavalesque-Art
Concept Group
06.02 > 08.02.15 – Maison Folie
Week-end en Folie N’importe quoi
d’autre - Arts²
06.03 > 8.03.15 – Maison Folie
Week-end en Folie Battle TransSs
03.04 > 05.04.15 – Maison Folie
Week-end en Folie THEAMA 2015 :
MONS S’M-ERVEILLE ! - la Fédération
Nationale des Compagnies Dramatiques
francophones (FNCD)
01.05 > 03.05.15 – Maison Folie
Week-end en Folie Les endroits cachés
de Mons avec les participants de l’atelier
photo de la Maison Folie
12.06 > 14.06.15 – Maison Folie
Week-end en Folie Tous-en-scène - Collectif Tous-en-scène
02.10 > 04.10.15 – Maison Folie
Week-end en Folie Débarcadère - Pop Up
20.11 > 22.11.15 – Maison Folie
Week-end en Folie Vrai/Faux Japon
par Arts²
30.10 > 01.11.15 – Maison Folie
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AND OUTSIDE OF MONS Lys 2015 !
23.05 > 25.09.15 – Kortrijk
Fluide
20.06 > 20.09.15 – Thuin
Les 400 coups
02.08 > 13.09.15 – Wallonie Picarde
Uitwijken
05.09 > 27.09.15 – Brugge
Like a Burning City
19.09.15 – Liège
Décrocher la Lune
26.09.15 – La Louvière
lille 3000 – Renaissance
26.09.15 > 17.01.16 – Lille
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Festival Les Gouts uniques – Chateau des ducs de Bretagne,
Nantes, septembre 2012, dans le cadre du Voyage à Nantes
2012 © LE GOÛT ET LES COULEURS
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MONS 2015 ON TOUR
The project
of an expanded
territory
18 PARTNERCITIES, 13 TOWNS AND 22 PARTNERINSTITUTIONS
INBELGIUM AND THE NORTH OF FRANCE:
A MAJOR TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
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MAC’s
© Ph. Degobert
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The Mons 2015 territorial development
project is, to some extent, based on the same
approach. After setting the ball rolling, Mons
is partly handing things over to partner institutions and 18 cities in adjacent population
catchment areas. Northern France, with
Maubeuge, Valenciennes and Lille; Liège,
Brussels, Bruges and Ghent, not forgetting
cities in the province of Hainaut, from Charleroi to Tournai. The latter are jointly creating
events galore on the basis of an ingenious
co-funding system. The annual contributions
these municipalities make, equal to 50 cents
per capita, are matched by the Mons 2015
Foundation. Ultimately, plenty of outstanding projects see the light, such as, in the
Wallonie Picarde (Tournai), the “Wapi” project
and the 400 Coups from Mr Zo, the brilliant
tumbler. In this case, too, the aim for Mons is
to carefully savour the specific socio-cultural
features of each one of its direct or potential
partners, while embarking upon a long-term
relationship with them, an alliance whose
meaning is invested in an extended and
consolidated regional and cross-border
network.
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partenaires
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digital
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY INFORMS THE ENTIRE PROGRAMME,
INITIATING A NEW DEMOCRATIC, MULTIDIMENSIONAL
AND DIRECT STRUCTURE
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Café Europa
© Mladen Bundalo
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Digital technology is also part of these
cross-cutting priorities. Mons 2015 even used
this as a slogan in its application to the European authorities– “Where Technology Meets
Culture” –, not only because it is consistent
with the aforementioned creative economy
goals but also because it is in line with a new
kind of mediation and democracy, open
and direct, between the individual and the
world. The Café Europa, whose prototype was
established in the Mons 2015 Foundation
courtyard, has set off on a European tour
before returning to the Mons in 2015, and
has soon developed into an interconnected
philosophy-minded venue. A testing ground
for deploying the new technologies in a bid
to understand how they tick, discussing their
social impact and sharing these debates
in real time with other stakeholders all over
Europe.
Digital technology also underpins
several multimedia projects, as diverse as
Children of nowhere by the director Fabrice
Murgia, premiered at the Festival Via, or the
interconnection of the new Mons museum
centre. A unique digital infrastructure breaking down barriers between museums and the
urban environment, and rolling out new creative systems to serve as an interface between
the heritage on display and each visitor’s
understanding of the cultural experience.
Digital technology is another programming
priority in its own right with Mons Street
ReView and Café Europa.
IN 2015
2015 Histoires
Chaque mercredi à 18h25 TéléMB
Mons Street reView
24.01 > 31.12.15 – mons2015.eu
Hypergothique transparent
24.01 > 26.04.15 – Sainte-Waudru
During Mons 2015, the cultural and
economic sectors are sharing the limelight
with the civic participation, as part of an innovative narrative seeking to enrich and renew
the very concept of “Creative City”. If one
thing can make Mons 2015 shine in today’s
Europe, it is this new vision of social organisation, and the answer given to the hot-button democratic challenges of today. After
all, what is culture, if not a way of restoring
meaning to what we all do together?
Festival VIA
+ Maubeuge
Café Europa
12.03 > 19.12.15 – Mundaneum
Radioscopie - Michèle Noiret
12.03 > 14.03.15 – Théâtre le Manège
Amnésia - Jean-Michel Van Den Eeyden
16.03 > 18.03.15 – Maison Folie
Children of nowhere - Fabrice Murgia
& Cie Artara
20.03 > 22.03.15 – Théâtre le Manège
Mapping Knowledge Réouverture du Mundaneum
12.06.15 > 29.05.16 – Mundaneum
Les (Rencontres) Inattendues
24.08 > 29.08.15 – Tournai
Transnumériques
11.15 – Mons intramuros
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PARTies
AND PUBLIC
SPACEs
CELEBRATIONS TO MARK THE CULTURAL YEAR
AND RECLAIM THE PUBLIC SPACE
WHILE INSTITUTING THE ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT
OF THE CITIZENS OF MONS
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Dimanche Toqué
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An aspiration that Mons 2015 will be
frequently highlighting during the quirky festivities and the artistic performances in the public space, starting with its spectacular opening
party, on 24 January. This is because celebration, in the European Capital of Culture, is the
most important component of the project,
its alpha and omega, its keystone.
Assigned to artists operating outside
cultural institutions, the celebratory activities
imply an unexpected relationship with the
public. An alliance that rules out any inaction,
makes sense in a creative context and creates
new flows in the urban environment. The
same applies to the opening and closing
festivities, the “City at Play” and the “Burning
Summer”.
Consequently, the celebration focuses and
balances out the equation.
—— For the economic dimension, an opportunity to gain media coverage for the
region’s tourist and entrepreneurial assets.
—— For the cultural dimension, the prism of
ever-active artists.
—— For the inhabitants of Mons and the
thousands of people visiting the city, a
huge variety of events in which to participate or enjoy, irrespective of their social
standing, cultural background or origins.
By now the true meaning of the Mons 2015
slogan should be obvious: In 2015, I’m from
Mons too. And you?
Wooden installation by Arne Quinze
06.12.14 – Rue de Nimy
Été mexicain
18.07 > 23.08.15 – Maison Folie
La Phrase
14.12.14 > 19.12.15 – Mons intramuros
Les 400 coups
02.08 > 13.09.15 – Wallonie Picarde
Mons Street reView
01.15 – mons2015.eu
Fête d’ouverture
Lichtfestival
29.01 > 01.02.15 – Gent
Ailleurs en Folie Lille
28.01 > 01.02.15 – Maison Folie
Rops/Fabre
14.03 > 30.08.15 – Namur
Installations urbaines
Ville en jeu(x)
Lys 2015 !
23.05 > 17.09.15 – Kortrijk
Fluide
20.06 > 20.09.15 – Thuin
Sun City
17.07 > 26.07.15 – Grand-Place
Smoke on the water
04.09 > 06.09.15 – Charleroi
Uitwijken
05.09 > 27.09.15 – Brugge
Dimanche Toqué
05.09 > 06.09.15 – Grand-Place
& Jardin du Beffroi
Like a Burning City
19.09.15 – Liège
Décrocher la Lune
26.09.15 – La Louvière
Lille 3000, Fête d’ouverture
26.09.15 – Lille
Nuit Blanche / Renaissance
03.10.15 – Bruxelles
Fête de clôture
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expos
& musées
exhibitions
and museums
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XAVIER ROLAND
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF ‘PÔLE MUSÉAL
MONS’ AND THE FINE ARTS MUSEUM
BAM (BEAUX-ARTS MONS)”
Master in Art History and Philosophy.
He is member of the Museumcouncil and
the jury of ‘Biennale de Venise 2015’ for the
Federation Wallonia-Brussel.
He has been organising many
exhibitions and has edited many different
texts and catalogues.
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This year’s programme is one that befits a European Capital of Culture. Mons will
play host to more than twenty exhibitions throughout the year. The incredible variety
of projects allows the town to paint a unique and vibrant panorama of ancient and
contemporary art, from the figure of St George in the history of art to monumental
sculpture in China. Nor should we fail to mention the Van Gogh and Verlaine
exhibitions. These are two major figures in modern art whose time in Mons is thought
to have influenced their artistic career. All these exhibitions are events which will
capture the attention, not only of the public at large, but also of cultural enthusiasts.
It is an international programme deeply rooted in its time. Take for example Atopolis, an
urban utopia seen through the eyes of twenty or so artists from the four corners of the
world. Or a retrospective exhibition devoted to Outsider Art, a great movement which is an
icon of the 20th century.
This year, more than any other, Mons is establishing itself as a town of Culture. Many other
projects will be visible in the exhibition sites of the Mons region: artists both local and
international, both young and established, transitory and unusual artworks - all will make
their mark on Mons’ artistic programme.
This cultural explosion will not stop at the borders of Mons! Not only in Intra Muros
and in the Borinage, but also in the Centre region, at Charleroi or even at Namur,
Brussels, Valenciennes, 17 museums will be opening their doors on the great exhibitions
of Mons 2015. These partner programmes will involve Belgian and international artists,
contemporary and classical art, museum projects and town walks and countless surprises
for all kinds of audiences of every sort… a rich year which, in this way, will see the
(re-)birth of iconic exhibition locations such as the B.P.S.22, Keramis and also the
Mundaneum.
The crucial year has been launched!
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Le Semeur
© KRÖLLER MÜLLER MUSEUM
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SUN.
25
01
2015
SUN.
17
05
2015
EXHIBITION
VAN GOGH
in the
BORINAGE
TUE. > SUN.
10:00 > 18:00
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BAM (BEAUX-ARTS MONS), MONS
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CURATOR: SJRAAR VAN HEUGTEN
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12/15€
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23.01.15 - PRESS OPENING
the birth of an artist
It was while he was in the Walloon coal-mining area of the Borinage, from December 1878 to
October 1880, that Vincent van Gogh abandoned
his career as a preacher and decided to become an
artist. This exhibition takes you through this crucial
period, during which the artistic ideas he developed largely set the course for his work. With some
seventy paintings, drawings and letters by and from
Van Gogh, the exhibition – which also includes over
twenty works that the artist copied or that influenced his work – beautifully portrays his various
sources of inspiration. The aim is not just to provide
an insight into the beginnings of Van Gogh’s artistic
career, but also to depict the living conditions in the
Borinage at that time.
Une production de la Fondation
Mons 2015 en collaboration avec le Pôle
muséal de la Ville de Mons, le Kröller-Müller
Museum et le Van Gogh Museum.
Little has been preserved of Van Gogh’s
work during this period, largely consisting of copies
based on other artists’ prints and sketches, or of his
subsequent output in Brussels (between October
1880 and April 1881). However, the first months of
his artistic career, which were decisive for his entire
work, are interesting not just for his creations of the
time. He made a choice at this time in favour of a
more personal direction and themes to which he
remained faithful throughout his career. The daily
lives of workers and peasants exerted a continuous fascination on him, through his admiration for
painters such as Léon Lhermitte, Jules Breton and
Jean-François Millet, but also through the experience of the difficult living conditions he shared with
the miners and workers of the Borinage.
These themes, which he was already exploring
during his stay in this region, resonate throughout
his later work: simple workers, the modest dwellings in which they lived, and weavers too, whom
he observed with great admiration in March 1880
but only immortalised later on, in 1883 to 1884,
when he came across large numbers of them while
living in the town of Nuenen in the Netherlands. In
1889 to 1890, he returned to his early years as an
artist by applying himself once again to the task of
making copies: in Saint-Rémy, where he revisited
the work of artists he admired – this time displaying
his genius in painting rather than drawing – and in
Auvers-sur-Oise, where he drew inspiration from
studies that he had previously copied in the first
months of his artistic career.
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SRJAAR VAN HEUGTEN
COMMISIONER
Sjraar van Heugten studied history at
Utrecht University. He was head of collections
at the Van Gogh Museum and has been an
independent historian since 2010. He specialises in 19th-century Western art, and particularly
the works of Vincent van Gogh. His published
work includes The Graphic Work of Vincent van
Gogh and the first two volumes of the four-volume catalogue of Van Gogh’s drawings at the
Van Gogh Museum ( he also co-authored the
third volume). He was one of the curators of the
retrospective of Van Gogh’s drawings, shown at
the Van Gogh Museum and The Metropolitan
Museum of Art in 2005, and of Van Gogh and
the Colors of the Night, shown at the Museum of
Modern Art and the Van Gogh Museum in 20082009. In 2012 he published a book about the
Triton Foundation. In April 2014, the new Vincent
Van Gogh Foundation in Arles opened with the
exhibition he curated – Van Gogh: Colours of
the North, Colours of the South. He is currently
curator of several exhibitions.
Un espace géré par le Pôle muséal
de la Ville de Mons
THE VAN GOGH HOUSE OF CUESMES
LA MAISON DU PRÉDICATEUR
REOPENING ANTICIPATED EARLY 2015
House Van Gogh of Cuesmes
© VILLE DE MONS
House Van Gogh of Colfontaine
© VILLE DE MONS
* Conscious of the significance of the Vincent Van Gogh exhibition, the Consortium
(Lixon, AkzoNobel Decorative Coatings
Group, Franki Society, A&G architects ,
and CIT Blaton, Knauf, & Wanty societies)
very early on looked for a project of great
symbolic value which would have a direct
relationship to this event of international
significance.
This house, a rare piece of evidence of Vincent Van Gogh’s presence in the Borinage,
and especially at Wasmes, immediately
inspired different members of the Consortium with entrepreneurial spirit.
They were very motivated by the desire to
give the region a cultural location which
was an integral part of Van Gogh’s travels
across Europe. Another source of motivation was the participation of the Hainaut
province educational establishment in this
superb project.
Cuesmes, a small town near Mons, is about
to become a mandatory stopping place for all
enthusiasts and specialists of the work of Van
Gogh. Located on the border of Mons, the Van
Gogh House will house for several months one of
the best known artists of the planet: Vincent Van
Gogh. It was during his stay in the Borinage that the
preacher decided to become an artist. The place
and the neighbouring landscapes are steeped
with an aura tinted with both rural and labourer
references which the painter will retain in his work
throughout his life.
A place of remembrance that the new scenography will try hard to awaken. The visitor’s path
begins in the form of a slow initiation which starts
from the time you enter the garden to continue
into a pavilion set up to provide the history of the
site. The visit continues through this small, totally
refurbished house so that it can simply and soberly
express the spirit of its famous resident. An audio
device ends the visit historically re-establishing the
work and the artist in the Borinage.
THE VAN GOGH HOUSE
OF COLFONTAINE
RENOVATION IN PROGRESS
Colfontaine holds a hidden treasure: the
Denis House, small labourer’s house, residence
of Vincent van Gogh during his years spent in
the Borinage. Mons 2015, the Municipality of
Colfontaine, the Province of Hainaut and an
association of businesses which includes the
AkzoNobel Decorative Coatings Group, the Franki
Company, the A&G Architectural Fur, the Gobert
Matériaux Companies and the CIT Blaton and Knauf
Companies are joining together to breathe life into
this heritage abandoned until now and to turn it, for
2015 and long afterwards, into an incontrovertible
place on the memory lane dedicated to the artist.
«I have rented a small house where I
will enjoy living all alone, but for the moment,
as Pa prefers, and I as well, I will stay with
Denis, I only use it as studio or work office».
— Vincent van Gogh to his brother,
Théo, letter of 4 March 1879
It is in March 1879 that Vincent van Gogh
mentions for the first time the house located at 81
Rue du Petit Wasmes, today Rue Wilson at Colfontaine. At his arrival in the Borinage a few months
earlier, in December 18781, the evangelist Benjamin
Vanderhaegen had found him these accommodations quickly. The house belonged to a baker called
Jean-Baptiste Denis and will have a leading role in
the artist’s path.
It is there that he lives his “companionship”
with the miners. It will be the theme for his first
attempts at drawing. It is also in this house that he
writes his brother letters which, like his reading, will
point his life towards an exceptional artistic destiny.
These precious elements of memory and
history, combined with the fact that places listed
still exist today, add to the duty to safeguard the
Denis house, which remains one of the rare items
of evidence of the presence of Van Gogh in the
Borinage, and particularly at Wasmes (today
Colfontaine).
At present, in a disastrous condition, only its
façade has been preserved in the original state.
The rest of the house requires meticulous reconstruction work which existing iconographic documents and the financial means already collected
make possible.
«Very close to the large sinister
buildings of the Marcasse mine, which stand
alone, isolated on the plain, and make one
really think of that night, under the pouring
rain, of Noah’s ark, as it could have appeared
in the dark, during the flood, in the flash of
lightning».
— Vincent van Gogh to his brother,
Théo, letter of 19 June 1879
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A HERITAGE OF PUBLIC INTEREST
In general, what we have left today of Van
Gogh, of course apart from his works, are the traces
of property of his path: The birthplace of Groot Zundert, the rectory of Nuenen, the house of Cuesmes,
the Hospital of Saint-Remy, the Hotel of Auvers sur
Oise. A “Van Gogh Europe” association was established on 2 February 2012 and intends to connect
virtually the places where the artist lived.
The Colfontaine house may soon complete
this “pilgrimage route”. Because, for the enthusiasts,
the fact that the artist mentions the Denis house
in his correspondence and he wrote there the
most fundamental letters of his life, authenticates
its unique and irreplaceable nature and reinforces
the attraction of the place. The old “Van Gogh
residences” also contribute to the trademark image
and, on a large scale, to the influence of the cities
involved and generate a significant number of
visitors per year.
THE HOUSE OF COLFONTAINE
IN 2015 AND AFTERWARDS
The house intends to host temporary exhibitions, a collection of research documentation
on Minnelli. The objective is to transform the floor,
during the tourist season, into a guest room and, the
rest of the year, into an artist or scientific residence.
After 2015, the Cultural Centre of Colfontaine
will become the manager of the place. It will then
be responsible for a place devoted to keeping the
memory of Vincent van Gogh alive and passing
through history with him.
VAN GOGH EUROPE: A EUROPEAN
INITIATIVE THAT PLACES
COLFONTAINE IN THE HISTORY
OF THE ARTIST
As a consequence of its integration into the
“Van Gogh” programme of Mons 2015 as ”physical”
place in the life of the Dutch painter, the Van Gogh
House is fully integrated into the context of the
priority centres of attention of Van Gogh Europe.
Van Gogh Europe will group 29 partners
whose top ambition is to make the heritage of the
Dutch artist attractive and accessible to all. Taking
into account the characteristics of a contemporary
public always on the move and for whom travelling
from Amsterdam to the South of France passing
through Belgium (and therefore Colfontaine) is no
longer an obstacle, Van Gogh Europe is focused
in particular on the implementation of physical and
virtual connections between the different places in
the life of Vincent van Gogh.
2015, the year which will mark 125 years
since the death of the artist, will be for Van Gogh
Europe and its network of partners (which includes
the municipalities of Cuesmes and Wasmes) the
opportunity to present “125 years of inspiration”
spread around the places which shaped the painter
and his art throughout his life.
A strong moment for a project the long-term
objective of which is to increasingly anchor the
life and path of Vincent van Gogh in the European
tourism-artistic landscape, or even world given the
fame of the artist.
Information: vangogheurope.eu
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Sun City
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31.01.15
>27.09.15
LA CHAUMIÈRE
ART IN CITY & WALKING TOUR JARDIN DU MAYEUR
In this urban installation inspired by Van Gogh’s 1885 painting The Cottage, the old-fashioned structure
will occupy a space in the “Jardin du Mayeur”. It will house a sculpture depicting a family of Potato Eaters,
inspired by the 1885 painting. Be present as this Borinage family take their meal, immersing yourself completely in their world.
25.01.15
>17.05.15
RANGE TA CHAMBRE - EXHIBITION VAN GOGH
EXHIBITION / YOUTH BAM
15€ (INCLUS DANS LE TICKET EXPO)
Using self-adhesive patches, colour Vincent Van Gogh’s Bedroom and help construct a three-dimensional
version of the artist’s work.
17.07.15
>26.07.15
SUN CITY
LABYRINTH OF SUNFLOWERS ON THE GRAND-PLACE
ART IN CITY GRAND-PLACE
FREE ENTRANCE
8000 sunflowers lining 2000 squaremeters of immersive maze : enjoy this poetical, playful, immersive
maze which will be set up for ten days on the Grand’Place. Stroll around, follow the audio trail and discover
a multitude of installations scattered around this living labyrinth – each a surprise for you to see and feel.
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PHILIPPE REYNAERT
CURATOR
Teaching in the 1970s, journalist then
editor in the 1980s, publicist in the 1990s,
Philippe Reynaert has devoted himself
full-time to his passion for the 7th Art since
February 2001, date on which the Wallonne
Region entrusted him the Management of
the s.a. Wallimage. Being based in Mons,
it very natural that the Man with the White
Glasses got involved in the competition then
the conception of Mons 2015.
Hollywood at the foot of the slag heap
© RINO NOVIELLO
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EXHIBITION / CINEMA
HOLLYWOOD
AT THE FOOT OF
THE SLAG HEAP
60 years before the exhibition Van Gogh
in the Borinage at the BAM, Vincente Minnelli
and Kirk Douglas filmed Lust for Life in Wasmes,
Hornu and Saint Ghislain, in the places that had
been the painter’s haunts 75 years earlier. Using
eye-witness accounts from extras in the film and
archive documents, this exhibition will plunge you
into the heart of the ten-day shoot that brought
Hollywood to the foot of the slag heap.
A FILM SHOOTING AT BORINAGE
Une coproduction de la Fondation
Mons 2015, du Pôle muséal de la Ville de
Mons et de Wallimage.
While the great exhibition will be held in
Mons in 2015 “Van Gogh in Borinage. Birth of
an artist[RI-A1] ”, 60 years before, on Tuesday,
27 September 1955, Vincente Minnelli placed
his Cinemascope camera in the same streets
of Wasmes, right near the Grand Hornu. He had
undertaken to bring to the screen “Lust for Life” of
Vincent van Gogh and, a rare event for American
cinema at that time, he chose to shoot the film in
the actual scenery which the painter saw evolve.
After a trek which had taken him from the
Netherlands to the South of France, passing
through Paris, the team of this Metro Goldwyn
Meyer (MGM) film settled in the Borinage. The
director, the actors such as Kirk Douglas, the
producer and their family members stayed at the
“Relais” at Ville-Pommeroeul.
An army of local extras is recruited by the
casting managers: Jean-Pierre Bertiaux, who was
10 years old in 1955, shot a short scene with Kirk
Douglas, he was marked by it for life. Alfred Brion
(92 years old) remembers this elegant “handsome
TUE. > SUN.
10:00 > 18:00
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FRIGO DES ANCIENS ABATTOIRS, MONS
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CURATOR: PHILIPPE REYNAERT
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2 / 1€
young man” who gave back to the miners of the
time some pride. But where have all the other
actors gone? That is what this project is trying to
discover!
THE TRACES OF THE PASSAGE
For eight days, there was a seething of
excitement and the Belgian press of the time
gave a full account of the event. Two audio-visual
documents also provide proof of that crazy week.
The first was at the beginning of the 1990s, by the
producer, André Huet who, within the context of
his programme Inédit (RTBF), had unearthed the
photos by an amateur, Marcel Honorez, to create
one of the most touching documentaries.
The second is even more surprising: Philippe
Reynaert, during his research, discovered that MGM
had sponsored the filming of about twenty minutes,
entitled “Van Gogh: Darkness into Light”, the
synopsis of which mysteriously announces:
“This behind the scenes look focuses
primarily the various European locations used in the
filming including the coal mines.” — (Internet Movie
DataBase)
All the material relative to the filming of Lust
for Life was kept following the disappearance of
Metro Goldwyn Meyer, replaced by Warner but
also by the Margaret Herrick Library, the “library”
of the Academy of the Oscars where our exhibition
organizer could check an example of the original
script annotated by the director, Vincente Minnelli,
himself!
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LUST FOR LIFE
CINEMA THÉÂTRE ROYAL
World premiere in Mons of “Lust for Life”
Last May, the managers of the Warner archives in the United States agreed to lend this making-of as well
as the negative of the film! It is the Cinémathèque Royale of Belgium, whose reputation reaches Hollywood
that is in charge of the restoration and digitisation of the work.
The world premiere of the restored digital version of Lust for Life can thus be shown at Mons. A Gala
screening will be organised at the Théâtre Royal, the distinguished guests could include Liza Minnelli,
daughter of the film director and Michael Douglas (the invitations have been sent!).
Later, within the context of the Festival of the Film d’Amour (Film Festival of Love) (FIFA), the Plaza Art
Cinema will host a festival Van Gogh at the Cinema combining the greatest films in which the painter
is the hero. The films of Pialat, Altman, Paul Cox, Samy Pavel, Alain Resnais but also short films on the
same subject sparked by the Province of Hainaut (see box).
Lastly, the audio-visual device will be completed by a documentary tracing the fantastic adventure of this
extraordinary filming. Arte has already demonstrated its interest in this 26’ documentary and its file is being
studied at present by the RTBF. It will be screened during the Gala of The Passionate Life of Vincent van
Gogh [Lust for Life] which it will introduce.
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Lust for Life
© WARNER USA
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Federator, the project is coordinated
by Charlotte Benedetti and Isabelle Delvaux,
and supported by a scientific committee of
historians from the two universities in the
city of Mons (UMons and UCL-Mons), the
State Archives at Mons and two other federal
scientific institutes, the Royal Library and the
Royal Museum for Central Africa.
Historian trained at the Catholic
University of Louvain, Isabelle Delvaux is first
devoted to the study of Belgian support to
the South African apartheid regime. Since
then specialized in museology, after a first
experience at the Royal Museum for Central
Africa and second in the Brussels Museum
of Industry and Labour (The Foundry),
she joined in 2012 the team in charge of
exhibitions at the Fondation Mons 2015.
Mons Superstar !
© COLLECTION HAINAUT
VIGILANCE SANITAIRE
After studying photography at La
Cambre and specialization in Cultural
Management at the Université Libre of
Brussels, Charlotte Benedetti quickly oriented
to projects museum. She has collaborated
in the creation of the Visitor Center of the
Region of Brussels-Capital and the Congo
River exhibition at the Royal Museum for
Central Africa. Since 2012, she collaborated
in the creation and installation of exhibits for
the Mons 2015 Foundation.
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EXHIBITION
MONS
SUPERSTAR !
ideas and men
Innovation: look into it, and you ultimately
find men and women inventing, redesigning and
innovating. Mons Superstar is a must if you wish to
encounter great men and women at the heart of a
city and its region, and the perfect introduction to
this European Year of Culture. Travel back in time to
explore the dynamism of Mons and learn about the
insane wagers and calculated risks, the triumphs and
tribulations of fired-up inventors, zealous idealists
and pragmatic engineers, all of whom have helped
transform this city and its surrounding region.
Une production de la Fondation
Mons 2015 en partenariat avec l’UMONS,
l’UCL-Mons, Archives de l’Etat à Mons,
Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Musée
Royal de l’Afrique centrale, BELSPO et le
Pôle muséal de la ville de Mons.
You will discover examples of amazing
boldness, optimism and perseverance. Jean-Charles
Houzeau, a brilliant scientist and director of the
Belgian Royal Observatory, was also an unwavering
humanist who fought against slavery while the
American Civil War was raging, often endangering
his life in the process. Nicolas Hardenpont’s claim
to fame rests on his development of the juicy pear
as we know it today! Isabelle Blume was an early
campaigner for women’s place in society. Charles
Malapert was a keen astronomer who gave his name
to a lunar crater…
This highly interactive exhibition takes a
light-hearted approach to learning. Appropriately
enough, the use of new technologies ensures that
inventiveness and innovation are also at the heart
of the visitor experience. This is a treasure hunt
and voyage of discovery–a quest for fascinating
facts and stories, from below the city’s pavements
all the way to the stars, via pear orchards, so take
a deep breath and plunge into the heart of Mons,
Superstar!
TUE. > SUN.
10:00 > 18:00
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LES ANCIENS ABATTOIRS, MONS
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COORDINATION: ISABELLE DELVAUX
& CHARLOTTE BENEDETTI
—
5 / 8€
To top it off, some distinctive portraits by
Olivier Cornil will celebrate the region’s inhabitants
– the unsung heroes who make the city of Mons
the remarkable laboratory that it is today.
DE MONS VERS LE NOUVEAU MONDE
PUBLICATION
JEAN-CHARLES HOUZEAU
Self-taught scientist, astronomer emeritus, war
journalist, traveller, explorer, inventor… Jean-Charles
Houzeau of Mons devoted his life to the study and
defence of the underprivileged.
Éditeur: Académie Royale de Belgique (Classe des Sciences,
2015) / Auteurs: Hossam Elkhadem (ULB) et Marie-Thérèse Isaac
(UMONS) / Partenaires: UMONS et Fondation Mons 2015.
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EXPERIENCE THE HERITAGE
OF MONS FOR THE FIRST TIME
It’s not every day that a city gets
five new museums all at once! But if that’s
what it takes to showcase the remarkable
and often-unknown heritage of Mons, then
so be it! The Artothèque (art library) will
become the heart of this Museum Cluster
and the place for conserving, restoring and
studying the heritage of Mons. More than
a unique collection of weapons of war, the
Mons Memorial Museum is a place where
you can experience communication between
different generations of people in a region
torn apart by two world wars. Mons also has
three UNESCO-classified gems! Discover
the irresistible Mons festival at the Doudou
Museum, and the baroque-style Mons Belfry,
built between 1661 and 1672, the only of its
kind, and now reopened and fully renovated.
Finally, be sure to pay a visit to SILEX’S,
architecturally important and captivatingly
beautiful, sitting atop the entrance of the
remarkable Neolithic Flint Mines of Spiennes.
Artothèque
© GIGOGNE L’ESCAUT
Holcim and EDF groups have both chosen to support the
museum cluster project, identifying therein the important role
it plays, and will play in the coming years in the development
cultural and economic of Mons and its region.
EDF also undertook important work of energy audit in different
institutions of the museum cluster to optimize the operation
of these structures.
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EXHIBITION/MUSEUM
opening of
five museums
10:00 > 18:00
—
MONS INTRAMUROS + SPIENNES
—
ALL WEEKEND FOR FREE
cluster of the city of mons
Event co-organised by the City of
Mons Museum Cluster and the Mons 2015
Foundation.
From next spring, you will be able to explore
five new museums and (re)discover a unique and in
some cases little-known heritage.
At the heart of the museum cluster is the
Arthotèque, where the local heritage of Mons is
preserved. This remarkable place will be a setting
for works and the activities associated with them.
But also a centre for reserve holdings, research,
restoration and heritage studies, combining all
municipal collections. The promotion of the heritage
of Mons will also be essential: it will be made
available through the virtual art library, and the
museums’ ‘hidden’ professions will also be revealed.
At the Mons Memorial Museum, visitors of
all ages will be invited to consider the phenomenon
of war in all its facets and complexities. The new
museum space is intended to be more than just
an exhibition space: it will also be a forum for
encounters and intergenerational exchange at the
heart of a “Place of Memory” marked by the two
world wars of the twentieth century. Through the
stories of men and women who witnessed these
events, visitors can enter into the daily lives of
soldiers and civilians in wartime.
You can also discover three places recognised
as UNESCO heritage sites. The first, the Doudou
Museum, in the heart of Mons, will introduce visitors
to the Ducasse or Doudou, the city’s popular feast
and historical pageant that was recognised by
UNESCO in 2005. This exceptional museum shines
a spotlight on the enthusiasm and dedication of
hundreds of people who work all through the year
to keep this tradition alive and pass it on to future
generations. Between the real and the imaginary, the
museum will also seek to promote an understanding
and appreciation of the different aspects of this
universal, centuries-old story.
Mons Belfry, built between 1661 and
1672 and the only baroque structure of its kind
in Belgium, was recognised by UNESCO in 1999.
It played a role in the protection of Mons, and its
carillon, heard at regular intervals throughout the
day, helps regulate the lives of the city’s inhabitants.
On a tour combining objects from the City of Mons
collections with new technologies, visitors can (re)
discover the history, past and present, of this place
which is so close to the hearts of the local people.
Finally, in a lush green setting, SILEX’S,
the visitor centre at the Neolithic flint mines of
Spiennes, offers an insight into every aspect of
this archaeological site recognised by UNESCO
in 2000. Dotted with thousands of pits, the site,
located 6 km from the city of Mons, is one of
Europe’s oldest and largest flint-mining centres,
extending over 100 hectares. The centre features
outdoor educational walks, a diorama space and a
trip down one of the Neolithic mines.
UN NUMERO, UN DESTIN.
AU SERVICE DE NAPOLEON
EXHIBITION/MUSEUM MONS MEMORIAL MUSEUM
13.06 > 27.09.15
4 / 6€
Discover some parallel destinies: those of the ‘Belgian’ soldiers who fought on battlefields throughout
Europe; and those of the civilians in Mons who
experienced the sociocultural changes introduced
by the French regimes.
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2015
ARSONIC
INAUGURATION/MUSEUM/MUSIC RUE DE NIMY
10:00 > 18:00 OPEN DOORS IN CONNIVENCE WITH
MUSEAL POLE
FREE ENTRANCE
At the end of Rue de Nimy is a place of creativity
and dreams entirely dedicated to sound, nicknamed
‘La Maison de l’Écoute’ (The House of Listening).
Architects Holoffe and Vermeersch, along with
the acoustician Eckhard Kahle, are developing
an original idea from musician Jean-Paul Dessy.
ARSONIC offers you a creative respite from the
frenzy of everyday life; a peaceful haven where
you can calmly catch your breath. As well as a
280-seat auditorium, you will find the Passage des
Rumeurs (Murmuring Passage) with exhibitions
and installations devoted to sound, a melodious
Chapelle du Silence (Chapel of Silence), rooms
of sounds and wonder, rehearsal rooms, a control
room, dressing rooms and permanent offices…
It’s not hard to be caught up in the spirit of the
building soon to house the teams of the Manège.
Mons. So, welcome to ARSONIC! But Sshh, we’re
keeping it a secret for now…
INSTALLATIONS URBAINES
INAUGURATION/ART IN CITY MONS INTRAMUROS
PERMANENTLY
FREE ENTRANCE
A new generation of completely liberated artists is
set to come hurtling into Mons! Their mission is to
touch every square, every street, every blind alley
and all the places at the nerve centre of the European Capital of Culture. However, we aren’t fleeing
our cultural institutions to impose their productions
across the city’s public spaces. These installations
are not intended to be open-air exhibitions of contemporary art, but rather a series of street-corner
“arisings”. Then, it’s down to you to make of them
what you will; what would you make of a pile of
books cascading down the street from a university
window, or of a giant aquarium in the lobby of a
building? What about tagging on walls or adverts
by graffiti artists from all over the place, even as far
as New York?! The aim is to open your eyes and, if
we can’t offer you answers, to encourage you to ask
questions. Who am I? Where am I going? What are
we doing together? Isn’t that the very meaning of
art? You tell us…
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Arsonic
© ISABELLE FRANÇAIX
Installations
Urbaines - Rivières de
livres
© ALICIA MARTIN
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DIRK SNAUWAERT
CURATOR
Since 2005, Dirk Snauwaert has
been working at the WIELS Contemporary
Art Centre, Brussels, of which he is the
artistic director and founder. Between 1989
and 1995, he was responsible for the
contemporary arts programme at the Brussels
Palais des Beaux-Arts Exhibitions Company;
then from 1996 to 2001 he was director of
the Kunstverein in Munich; and from 2002 to
2005 he was joint director of the Institut d’Art
Contemporain (IAC) Villeurbanne-Lyon. He has
developed and coordinated around a hundred
solo, themed and group exhibitions. He also
gives lectures and publishes regularly on art
and visual culture.
CHARLOTTE FRILING
CO-CURATOR
Atopolis
© BENOIT PLATÉUS
An art historian, Charlotte Friling
studied at Central Saint Martins College of
Art and Design in London and at Oxford
University before completing a Master’s
at Columbia University New York. She has
worked on various exhibition projects for
institutions, and has developed a number of
solo exhibitions. She is currently assistant
curator at the WIELS Contemporary Art
Centre, Brussels, and assisted Elena Filipovic
on the Franz Erhard Walther and Mark
Leckey exhibitions.
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EXHIBITION
atopolis
Mons 2015, du Pôle muséal de la Ville de
Mons et du WIELS.
This contemporary art exhibition, supported
by the WIELS contemporary art centre in Brussels,
will present a group of artists fascinated by the
phenomena of circulation, exchange and transfer
of artistic cultures and practices. The title alludes
to the ideas of Edouard Glissant, an influential
commentator on cultural hybridity, who long ago
began to argue in favour of interconnected and
egalitarian relations between human beings,
between the community and nature, between the
animate and inanimate world, and between the
imaginary, the symbolic and the real.
As Mons was at one time the epicentre of
the cultural and social melting-pot associated with
the Borinage and the process of modernisation, this
exhibition will explore the issue of plural identities.
These have taken shape since the early days
of industrialisation, transcending national borders
and lines of geographical or identity demarcation
and following people’s paths as they migrated to a
‘better life’.
TUE. > SUN.
12:00 > 18:00
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MANÈGE DE SURY, MONS
—
CURATOR: DIRK SNAUWAERT
CO-CURATOR: CHARLOTTE FRILING
—
5 / 8€
Addressing the notions of otherness
and difference in response to globalisation, the
exhibition will also focus on the specific character
of its venue, the Manège de Sury, and the story of
this ‘micro-city’ or ideal community in the former
premises of riding stables and a monastery that
later became a school. In 2016, this restored
building complex will become a business incubator
and a model city block: it will be an atopos or ‘nonlocation’ of a technological future.
Over twenty artists will temporarily set out
their proposals here for atopolis – the ideal city.
You will find works by artists such as Saâdane
Afif, Nevin Aladağ, Francis Alÿs, Danai Anesiadou,
El Anatsui, Yto Barrada, Huma Bhabha, Vincen
Beeckman, Vlassis Caniaris, Abraham Cruzvillegas,
Meschac Gaba, Jef Geys, Thomas Hirschhorn,
David Medalla, Adrian Melis, Benoit Platéus, Diego
Tonus and Jack Whitten.
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MONSens
© COLL. ART & MARGES MUSÉE
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MONSens
Outsider art past and present & interaction
EXHIBITION BAM (BEAUX-ARTS MONS)
CURATOR: CARINE FOL ET YOLANDE DE BONTRIDDER.
TUE. > SUN. 10:00 > 18:00
6€/9€
By showcasing asylum art, art brut, outsider art, the
exhibition MONSens combines two projects, which
perfectly illustrate the evolution of our perception
and appreciation of creativity on the margins of
mainstream art. The first project, initiated by the
Hainaut mental health consultation platforms, will
focus on the change in the significance attributed
to works by their discoverers (psychiatrists or artists), their creators and their spectators. A comparison of historical and contemporary works will throw
light on how the look we take at such artworks has
evolved. The second component, Interaction, will
present the results of workshops bringing together
contemporary artists (Cléa Coudsi and Eric Herbin,
Lise Duclaux, Yves Lecomte, Mireille Liénard,
Emilio Lopez-Menchero, Caroline Rottier and Tinka
Pittoors) and people with mental disabilities residing in Le Carosse. Creative works as diverse as a
field of wildflowers, a play and monumental papier
mâché heads will result from these encounters.
Some of this work will also be on display elsewhere.
Une coproduction de la Fondation Mons 2015, du Pôle muséal de la
Ville de Mons, Le Carrosse (Mons), les Plateformes de concertation
pour la santé mentale (Picardie, Centre et Charleroi) et PsycArt
ASBL (Bruxelles)
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MICHEL BAUDSON
CO-CURATOR
Michel Baudson is Honorary Director of
the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts/Ecole
Supérieure des Arts in Brussels. He is also
Honorary President of the ABCA (Belgian
Association of Art Critics), a member of the
AICA (International Association of Art Critics),
and a member of the ICOM (International
Commission of Museums). In addition, he is
President of Jeunesse et Arts Plastiques asbl
(Young People and Visual Arts – Palais des
Beaux-Arts, Brussels) and guest professor
at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts (Shaanxi,
China).
China Scene N°1, CHEN Wenling
© LIU SHANLONG
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2015
EXHIBITION
fervent
china
contemporary
TUE. > SUN.
12:00 > 18:00
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LES ANCIENS ABATTOIRS, MONS
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BELGO-CHINESE CO-CURATORS:
MICHEL BAUDSON AND FAN DI’AN
—
6 / 4€
MONUMENTAL sculptures
Discover the world of contemporary Chinese
artists and their monumental sculptures. Since
the first avant-gardes made their mark in the late
70s, these artists have displayed an extraordinary
creative ferment. Like the Phoenix, the mythical bird
with the power to be cyclically reborn by arising
from its own ashes, they are characterised by a
variety of forms undergoing constant renewal. In
this way, they have put their stamp on the fervent
Chinese art scene.
The works of some twenty artists, from the
pioneers of the late 70s and early 80s to the latest
generations, will be presented both in the main hall
and cold store of the former slaughterhouse and in
the garden, to form a magnificent collection.
As their vitality grows, so have they affirmed
their specific identity by reclaiming their cultural
bearings in a new ‘Renaissance’. Their guiding
principle is thus to reinterpret and modernise the
foundations of Chinese thought, thereby giving rise
to new possibilities.
Une coproduction du Pôle Muséal
de la Ville de Mons, de la Fondation
Mons 2015, du Ministère de la Culture
de la République populaire de Chine, du
China Art & Entertainment Group et du
National Art Museum of China (NAMOC)
avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie
Bruxelles, Wallonie-Bruxelles International
et l’Ambassade de Belgique – Délégation
Wallonie-Bruxelles en Chine, Beijing
Co-commissariat belgo-chinois:
Michel Baudson et Fan Di’an
For this exhibition, sculptural works have
deliberately been chosen. Rather than ink or
brushes, you will find plenty of works that highlight
the new relationship between Chinese artists
and the three-dimensionality of sculpture and
its materials. Whether their origins are industrial,
artisanal, mineral or natural, or whether they are
recycled or synthetic, each material is put to use
in order to test out alternative symbolic meanings
or extract from it the germ of unexpected artistic
proposals that can ‘change or transform the
world’ – the concept expressed by the exhibition’s
Chinese title, Hua Sheng.
La Chine Ardente
© SHEN BO
© SHU SHANYI
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IN THE CONTEXT OF JEAN-PAUL LESPAGNARD,
INVOLVED ARTIST
TILL WE DROP – JP LESPAGNARD
FASHION / EXHIBITION
MAISON FOLIE / ESPACE DES POSSIBLES
WED. > SUN. 12:00 > 18:00
MON., TUE. AND MORNINGS BY BOOKING
FREE ENTRANCE
The Belgian designer Jean-Paul Lespagnard, artistic
partner of Mons 2015, invites you to explore his creative process. Inspired by his 2014 collection sharing
the same name, the exhibition evokes the exuberant
life of the grand hotels of the Riviera Maya in Mexico
and echoes a certain idea of an artificial paradise –
a euphoric world of transgression and freedom.
Jean-Paul Lespagnard, disguised as a bee, takes
you on a journey interspersed with devices depicting
the rites, habits and customs of the impulsive tourist,
liberated from the routines of daily life.
En collaboration avec la Galerie des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris.
FRI.
21
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2015
SAT.
22
08
2015
NUIT DES MUSÉES
EXHIBITION / WALKING TOUR MONS INTRAMUROS
FREE ENTRANCE
The aim of Mons Museum Night is to open every
museum in the city for an extraordinary evening.
With its youthful and original programming, this
event will allow you to explore these museums in
a new light (or should we say twilight?). Exhibitions
and guided tours focusing on personal favourites,
drama, dance and music, sound and audiovisual
installations, creative workshops and DJ sets will all
be laid on to ensure that the museums of Mons are
really under the spotlight for the evening.
Till we drop
© JEAN-PAUL LESPAGNARD
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10
2015
IN THE CONTEXT OF LA SEMAINE LASSUS
LA MUSIQUE EN HAINAUT
AUX XVIIE ET XVIIIE SIÈCLES
EXHIBITION ATELIERS DES FUCAM
Found by researchers at UCL, valuable documents
from the Mons and Hainaut archives will be exhibited in the top heritage site of the former Sœurs
Noires (Black Sisters) convent. In music and
in reverse: a voyage to the centre of time.
Une coproduction de la Fondation Mons 2015 et de UCL Mons.
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2015 2015
IN THE CONTEXT OF LA SEMAINE DU BRŒUCQ
REVIVRE DU BRŒUCQ
EXHIBITION / GASTRONOMY CHAPELLE DU BÉLIAN, MONS
Simply step into the Bélian Chapel and you will find
yourself at the Château de Boussu, at Mariemont or
in Saint-Omer, among statues and walls (many of
them now lost) by the great Renaissance architect
and sculptor of Mons. A virtual world recreated by
the UMons Faculty of Architecture.
PARCOURS - 40
EXHIBITION / ART IN CITY
DIFFERENT PLACES IN THE CITY
10:00 > 18:00
FREE ENTRANCE
For two weekends, artists under the age of 40 take
possession of premises in the city centre (houses,
shops, barns, schools, etc.) or occupy museum
spaces which are not usually dedicated to their
mode of expression. Stroll through the city streets
and discover their work on this winding route…
Du Broeucq
© GREGORY MATHELOT
Parcours -40
© FRÉDÉRIC BUCHET
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BERNARD BOUSMANNE
CURATOR
Bernard Bousmanne has a doctorate
in medieval civilisation and is head of the
Manuscripts Department of the Royal Library
of Belgium, where most of the documents
about Paul Verlaine’s trial are held. He is
the author of the book Reviens, reviens
cher ami – Rimbaud-Verlaine, L’Affaire de
Bruxelles (Come back, come back dear friend
– Rimbaud-Verlaine, the Brussels Affair),
published by Calmann-Lévy in 2006.
Verlaine. Cellule 252.
Turbulence poétique
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EXHIBITION / LITERATURE
VERLAINE.
CELL 252
POeTIc turbulences
This exhibition immerses you in the story
of Verlaine and Belgium that had a profound
influence on the poet of Romances sans paroles.
There was Brussels, the first place of refuge on his
wonderful ‘voillage avec Rimbe’ (his journey with
the poet Rimbaud), then the scene of the climax of
their irresistible but impossible relation. And later,
there was Mons and its prison – a lonely time of
uncertainty and melancholy.
Mons 2015, du Pôle muséal de la Ville
de Mons et de la Bibliothèque royale de
Belgique
Verlaine had every vice. He was a grey soul
plunged by baseness into the dark, an unworthy
husband who beat his wife, a notorious alcoholic,
a frequenter of brothels. Above all, he was
characterised by a culpable naivety. His poems no
longer have to be read in secret, yet despite the
hundreds of pages of his complete works in the
Pléiade edition, the critics have all but forgotten
about him. Worse, all he is known for now is a few
choice verses: the Fêtes galantes, the Romances
sans paroles and the Poèmes saturniens. The rest
are seen as mere religious trinkets that smack of
the confessional, or the platitudes of an old writer in
want of inspiration. A ‘great perverter’, as Edmond
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THE EXHIBITION PARADE SAUVAGE)
de Goncourt called him, or one of ‘les Vaincus’
– the defeated – among the bright pantheon of
poetry, as others tend to believe. The book and
exhibition devoted to him will seek to transform this
image of an ineffectual Verlaine, and to give back
to him something of what he has given to writers
and to literature in general. Like an epic novel, the
exhibition takes you on a ‘Verlaine journey’ around
the man and his writings, using many unusual and
exceptional documents. Others who played a part
in his story also appear: his wife Mathilde Mauté,
the judge Theodore t’Serstevens, his ‘girlfriends’
Eugénie and Philomène, contemporary Belgian
men of letters such as Emile Verhaeren and
Maeterlinck, but also Mallarmé, Oscar Wilde and
Victor Hugo... And of course, in the shadows, Arthur
Rimbaud, the beau Satan adolescent.
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PARADE SAUVAGE
EXHIBITION BAM (BEAUX-ARTS MONS)
WED. > SUN. 12:00 > 18:00
9 / 12€ (TICKET IN CONJUNCTION WITH “VERLAINE, CELLULE 252”)
Transformed by the avant-garde movements of the
post-war period, the European and American art
scene around the 60s was remarkable for the wildness of much of its creations. The exhibition Parade
sauvage explores the main fault lines: between art
and anti-art, culture and counter-culture. Wildness is
the guiding theme on the deliberately winding road
along which the visitor is taken, which combines
informal art and performance, cine-poem and documentation. The extent of the criticism of industrial civilisation can be glimpsed from the importance given
visually to the individual body and the social body.
The consumer society, moral puritanism and political
imperialism were the main targets for the protest
movement and libertarianism that spilled over from
intellectual and artistic circles and made dramatic
mass appearances in several popular actions: the
March on Washington in ‘63, the events of May ‘68,
and the Woodstock Festival in ‘69.
DENIS GIELEN
CURATOR
Denis Gielen was born in Brussels in
1966. Since 2007 he has been Deputy Director
of MAC’s - Museum of Contemporary Art in
Grand-Hornu where he also curates exhibitions:
Edith Dekyndt – The Waves of Love (2009); I
Am Alone, with You (2011); S.F. – Art, Science &
Fiction (2012) and Tony Oursler/ Phantasmagoria
(2014). He is the editor of the MAC’s journal
DITS, and a member of the International Council
This was a period during which the fight against
academicism was resumed, having been initially
entered into by the first historical avant-gardes,
particularly Dada and Surrealism, only to be sadly
interrupted by the totalitarianism of the ‘30s. Taking
its title from a poem by Rimbaud, Parade sauvage
is intended as a ‘love song’ that looks, beyond the
institutions that confined it, at the variegated bestiary of all those who shook the established order
of the right-thinking bourgeoisie through their thirst
for freedom or their anti-conformism.
Une production du Pôle muséal de la Ville de Mons en collaboration
avec la Fondation Mons 2015.
Commissaire: Denis Gielen
of Museums (ICOM). As an independent art
critic and publisher, he is also involved in
cultural mediation, connecting the public with
contemporary art through publications, lectures
and media campaigns.
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Nan Goldin, Bea as Rita Hayworth, 1973. Épreuve gélatino-argentique, 40,6 x 50,8 cm - Collection Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu
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Tilman Riemenschneider, Saint
Georges combat le dragon, bois, 77,
5 x 51 cm, vers 1490.
Skulpturensammlung und Museum für
Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin.
©BPK BERLIN
Giuseppe Penone, Albero folgorato,
2012, Bronze, or, 1000 x 200 x 200 cm
Vue de l’installation, Tapis Vert, Château
de Versailles, Versailles 2013
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EXHIBITION
the man,
the DRAGON
& the death
By setting up an illuminating dialogue
between artworks and their historical context, this
exhibition shows how the iconography of St George
and the dragon has always been a powerful driver
of the European imagination. A selection of works is
on display (including paintings, sculptures, drawings
and illuminated manuscripts) representing the saint
in different forms, and the exhibition examines how
St George and the dragon are identified today with
various battles of humanity against hostile forces,
but also and perhaps above all against humanity
itself as it seeks to define its destiny.
Mons 2015 et du MAC’S en partenariat
avec les Musées de la Ville de Brugge
(Musea Brugge)
The success of the cult of St George was
considerable, and his fame spread throughout
the Western world. He became the emblem of
countries and regions in Europe such as England,
Portugal, Catalonia and Aragon. A multi-faceted
figure, St George was also the patron saint of
corporations, of various orders and of many
European cities which were placed under his
protection. This success accounts for the multiple
depictions to be found in the largest European
collections, as well as frequent appearances
in popular traditions, which still constitute an
intangible heritage that is showcased in this
exhibition. Four contemporary artists are invited to
show how this myth has retained its meaning even
today: David Claerbout, Giuseppe Penone,
Luc Tuymans and Angel Vergara Santiago.
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CURATORS: MANFRED SELLINK
& LAURENT BUSINE
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MANFRED SELLINK
CO-CURATOR
Director of the City of Bruges
Museums since 2001, Manfred Sellink has
organised numerous exhibitions and research
projects. He specialises in early Dutch prints
and drawings (from the second half of the
16th century). He has many publications to
his name, in particular on Pieter Bruegel,
and organised the major retrospective of the
artist’s drawings and prints in 2001 (Museum
Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam and The
Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York).
LAURENT BUSINE
CO-CURATOR
Laurent Busine is director of MAC’s –
Museum of Contemporary Art – in GrandHornu. He has a degree in history of art and
archaeology, and is an exhibition curator
and the author of numerous scientific and
literary publications. He was a senior lecturer
in museology at the Université Libre de
Bruxelles, and from 1982 to 2002 he was
exhibitions director at the Palais des BeauxArts in Charleroi.
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D’entre eux - Cédric Gerbehaye
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AU FOMU - FOTOMUSEUM À ANVERS
IN THE CONTEXT OF MONS 2015
26.06.15 > 04.10.15
VERLAINE:
AQUARELLES DE GABRIEL LEFEBVRE
EXHIBITION GALERIE RENARD, RUE D’ENGHIEN 45, MONS
Quelques traits aériens habités de couleurs vives
et chaudes, un regard faussement naïf sur le
monde… et les mots de Verlaine, sous les pinceaux de Gabriel Lefebvre. Ce professeur de l’ISEP
et résident montois aborde l’imaginaire du poète In
the context of l’EXHIBITION Verlaine, Cellule 252,
Turbulences poétiques. Rdv à la galerie Renard,
rue D’Enghien 45. Un livre illustré sortira à cette
occasion.
D’ENTRE EUX - CÉDRIC GERBEHAYE
EXHIBITION/ PHOTOGRAPHY SALLE SAINT-GEORGES, MONS
TUE. FRI. 12:00 > 18:00
SAT. SUN. 14:00 > 20:00
1€/2€
Through photographic research and collaborative
encounters with the partner cities of the Mons
2015 Foundation, but also with local collectives and
associations, Cédric Gerbehaye, a documentary
photographer and member of the agency VU’, plans
to explore Belgium from the viewpoint of everyday
reality. In this project, he uses photography as an
analytical tool, as an instrument which, while proving nothing, can at least draw attention to the real
issues, open minds and prompt awareness.
In addition to the exhibition in Mons, the photographer will present the results of his work in a book
and by means of an audiovisual installation. Three
gateways to discovering a personal portrait of the
complex land of Belgium.
The writer Caroline Lamarche describes this
work more eloquently than anyone: ‘Who can
we call together in this land whose regions are
locked in rivalry, and in this society which becomes
less equal every day? Here, people are caught at
moments of loneliness, distraction or tenderness.
You sense a battle that is over, a fabric that is
unravelling, and in some cases exhaustion. And
that tiredness also means vulnerability. Or, to put it
differently, a sudden alertness that questions not so
much the end of a country as the end of
a job, of an era, of an imagined future. Something
simultaneously lucid and inattentive that seems to
prefer a connection to separatist ideologies, miracle
recovery plans or well-worn pessimism. A connection and inward contemplation.’
Une production du Fotomuseum d’Anvers avec le soutien de la
Fondation Mons 2015 et du Pôle muséal de la Ville de Mons. Commissaire : Joachim Naudts
CÉDRIC GERBEHAYE
Cédric Gerbehaye is a documentary
photographer and member of the Agence
VU. Having worked in the Middle East, from
2007 he started making regular trips to
the Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo
in Limbo, published as a book, was the
subject of numerous exhibitions, and won
seven international awards (including World
Press Photo and the Overseas Press Club of
America’s Olivier Rebbot Award). His series
on South Sudan, Land of Cush, supported by
the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund
and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting,
was awarded the SCAM prize in 2012 and
was published in 2013. Also in 2013, he was
invited by the ImageSingulières Festival to
photograph the town of Sète, and published
his work as a book, entitled Sète#13.
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Le monde à l’envers
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and with
our partners
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IN THE CONTEXT OF OOSTENDE, VILLE PARTENAIRE
DE ZEE/THE SEA/LA MER
SALUT D’HONNEUR À JAN HOET
EXHIBITION MU.ZEE ET DIVERS LIEUX DU CENTRE-VILLE
WWW.MUZEE.BE
TUE. > SUN. 10:00 > 18:00
15 / 9€
Between a museum, a church of fishermen, a
former cinema, a hotel with overlooking to the sea,
The sea offers a dialogue with the city of Ostend.
Tribute to the Belgian CURATOR Jan Hoet, the
exhibition presents a journey through the history
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of Western art from the nineteenth century to the
present. Between modern and contemporary art,
from James Ensor to Jan Fabre, Gustave Courbet to
Corillon art, it brings together the work of more than
150 artists who found inspiration in marine waters
and portray perfectly the raw violence and calm,
lightness and timeless charm of the sea.
LE MONDE À L’ENVERS
CARNAVALS ET MASCARADES D’EUROPE
ET DE MEDITERRANEE
EXHIBITION MUSÉE INTERNATIONAL DU CARNAVAL
& DU MASQUE, BINCHE
TUE. > FRI. 09:30 > 17.00
15 / 9€
WWW.MUSÉEDUMASQUE.BE
For thirty years, all over the world, carnivals have
been making a major comeback. Everywhere,
rural masquerades and urban parades are being
reborn and reinvented. The world turned upside
down is a journey into the imaginative world of the
carnival and a reflection on what it has to tell us
about ourselves and contemporary societies. Along
the way, the visitor discovers the masked rituals of
European and the Mediterranean: urban parades,
some of them linked to the liturgical calendar, old,
new or revisited; carnivals exported from Europe
to the former colonies, Creolised, Africanised, and
returning today to revitalise European carnivals.
A look is also taken at the masked rituals of the
Muslim and Jewish worlds.
A new look and a fresh perspective, taking into
account both the rural and urban, historical and
contemporary side of traditional masquerades.
Une coproduction de la Fondation Mons 2015, du Musée international
du Carnaval et du Masque (MüM, Binche) et du Musée des
Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM, Marseille).
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L’OMBILIC DU RÊVE
FELICIEN ROPS/ALFRED KUBIN/MAX KLINGER/
ARMAND SIMON
EXHIBITION MUSÉE ROYAL DE MARIEMONT
TUE. > SUN. 10:00 > 17:00
5€ /2,5€ / FREE ENTRANCE - 12YEARS
WWW.MUSÉE-MARIEMONT.BE
Félicien Rops, Max Klinger, Alfred Kubin and
Armand Simon. Engravers and graphic artists.
Four major artists whose works, when brought
into dialogue and confrontation with one another,
reflect the concerns and depravities of our modern
age. Organised around five themes (dreams, the
feminine, death, eroticism and the uncanny), which
are also those of psychoanalysis and literature, The
Dream’s Navel is a reflection of the cultural and
social changes that marked Europe throughout the
twentieth century. As well as being the product of
international partnerships (Austria, Poland, France),
the exhibition is also an opportunity to discover
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the rich collection of works of Félicien Rops of
the Royal Museum of Mariemont, most of which
are little known to the general public. The Belgian
writers Caroline Lamarche, Caroline De Mulder and
François Emmanuel will also be present with verbal
contributions.
Une coproduction du Musée Royal de Mariemont, établissement
scientifique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, du Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles à Paris et de la Fondation Mons 2015.
Commissaire principal : Sofiane Laghouati. Comité scientifique:
Ariane Skoda, Guidino Gosselin, Pierre Jean Foulon, Elisabeth
Dumesnil. En partenariat avec La Lettre Volée.
DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL VIA
NOUVEAUX CINÉMAS
EXHIBITION MAUBEUGE
WWW.LEMANEGE.COM
EXHIBITION LILLE
WWW.LILLE3000.COM
Unmissable event VIA International Festival, the
exhibition New Movies questions new forms of
storytelling and experimentation around the cinematic image. Upset by interactivity, home made
and piracy, the 7th Art is looking for new ways
but is always fascinating. With: Antoine Schmitt
& Delphine Doukhan, Benjamin Muzzin, Donald
Abad, Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Stephen Rey,
Holger Förterer, Jean Piché, Line Nault, Marnix de
Nijs, Nicolas Maigret, Nonotak, Project EVA, Stefane
Perraud, Bruno Levy & Blake Shaw
IN THE CONTEXT OF NAMUR, VILLE ET PROVINCE PARTENAIRES
FELICIEN ROPS / JAN FABRE - INVITATION
EXHIBITION NAMUR
TUE. > SUN. 10:00 > 18:00
10€ / 5€ / FREE ENTRANCE - 18YEARS
WWW.MUSÉEROPS.BE
Jan Fabre is a versatile and innovative visual artist,
playwright and author who has played a prominent
part in the international art scene for over 35 years.
In an article published in 2011, he declared that if
he had to steal one work from a museum, it would
be the Pornocratès of Félicien Rops. Today, Rops
posthumously invites Fabre to tour his city, Namur.
A new route taking in museums and outdoor
spaces, exploring the bold and challenging worlds
of these two Belgian artists.
At the Félicien Rops Museum and the Maison de la
Culture: exhibitions of works that create a visceral
link between both artists, between vital impulse
and death wish. On the Citadel and in the city:
outdoor sculptures. At the Church of Saint-Loup: a
philosophical response from Bernard Henri Lévy,
who has been invited by Fabre to address the
Baudelairean spirit of the two artists across time.
At the Royal Theatre: two Fabre shows, Preparatio
Mortis and Le Pouvoir des folies théâtrales.
Numerous ancillary activities in connection with the
exhibitions: lectures, film screenings, workshops,
etc.
Un projet de la Province de Namur, la Ville de Namur, l’asbl “Amis du
musée Rops”, l’asbl “Comité Animation Citadelle”, le Théâtre royal
de Namur, le studio Angelos et le studio Troubleyn.
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LA SALLE DES PENDUS - CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI
EXHIBITION MAC’S
TUE. > SUN. 10:00 > 18:00
8€/4€/2€
WWW.MAC-S.BE
Sculptor and photographer Christian Boltanski is
recognised today as one of France’s foremost visual
artists. His work examines the boundary between
absence and presence and arouses emotion. It
explores the themes of memory, the unconscious,
childhood and death. Using various materials,
including old photographs, found objects and lights,
his installations reconstitute moments from life
populated with memory-laden objects that echo
our recollections and our emotional and personal
memory.
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Une production du Musée des Arts Contemporains avec le soutien
de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles,
la Province de Hainaut, la République Française et la Fondation
Mons 2015.
MONS À L’ÉPOQUE
DES GRANDES DÉCOUVERTES
EXHIBITION MUSEUM REGIONAL DES SCIENCES NATURELLES
MON. > FRI. 8:30 > 17:00
SAT. SUN. 10:00 > 18:00
FREE
WWW.ENVIRONNEMENT.WALLONIE.BE/MUSEUM-MONS
The 19th century: learned societies and scientific
circles in the Mons region are seized by intellectual
ferment. Industry is booming, and everywhere
there is digging: coal mines, chalk quarries, railway
construction sites... Extraordinary discoveries are
made in the soil and subsoil of these sites. From
the iguanodons of Bernissart to the Neolithic flint
mines of Spiennes, taking in the discovery of other
strange fossils along the way, it is enough to set
contemporary scientists’ heads spinning. In the
age of new technologies, this exhibition presents
the story of these impassioned scientists and
FRI.
There is a long-standing connection between
MAC’s and the artist: Les registres du Grand-Hornu,
which was the first work in the museum’s collection
and is now of iconic significance for it, was created
and acquired in 1997. During Mons 2015, MAC’s
invites Christian Boltanski to continue this work
as part of the event, which will be his first major
museum exhibition in Belgium.
industrialists who, at the intersection of science and
technology, at the height of the industrial revolution,
were trying to understand and ask questions about a
changing world of which we are still the heirs today.
Un projet porté par l’UMONS, en collaboration avec le Museum
d’histoire naturelle (SPW), le Silex’s (Ville de Mons), l’asbl
La Malogne, l’Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique,
le Musée de l’Iguanodon de Bernissart. Avec le soutien du Service
public de Wallonie DGO4 - DGO6, DGO3 et de la Fondation Mons
2015.
MOI, TOI ET LE JARDIN
EXHIBITION DOMAINE DE SENEFFE – MUSÉE DE L’ORFEVRERIE
APRIL > SEPTEMBER - 8.00>20.00
OCTOBER > NOVEMBER - 8.00>18.00
WWW.CHATEAUDESENEFFE.BE
The Domaine de Seneffe, which will serve as a rural
getaway in 2015, mounts a collective exhibition of
monumental photographs in a lush green setting.
Ten Belgian photographers offer us their take on the
distinctive relationship between man and his garden. ‘A garden is not a person – yet it speaks to us
like a person. Look around you: this patch of greenery tells us who we are. How are our lives reflected
by our presence in nature and our gardens?’
For you, me AND us in the Garden
An interactive and evolving project, the exhibition
invites visitors and Internet users to submit their
photographs on the theme of being in the garden
via social networks. These will be displayed on a
visual expression wall on the Estate’s terraces.
Avec Alain Breyer, Anne De Gelas, Maxime Delvaux, Thierry De Mey,
Geert De Taeye, Marc Guillaume, Rino Noviello, Marie-Françoise
Plissart, Jean-François Spricigo et Jacques Villet.
Un projet du Domaine de Seneffe - Musée de l’Orfèvrerie en coproduction avec la Fondation Mons 2015.
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HOMO FABER. POETIQUES
ET MECANIQUES DU TRAVAIL
EXHIBITION ÉCOMUSÉE DU BOIS DU LUC
TUE. > SUN. 9:00 > 18:00
6€/4€
WWW.BOISDULUC.COM
‘Here is a field in which you can work for the
whole of your life – both the landscape and the
human figure… In short, it was in the Borinage
that I began to work from nature for the first time.’
Vincent Van Gogh recalls his time in the Borinage
‘Black Country’. With Homo faber, the Ecomuseum
of Bois-du-Luc takes Van Gogh and his foray into
the Borinage as the starting point for a reflection
on the links between art and industry from the
19th century to the present day. With exhibitions,
theatre, literature, expression workshops, events,
this is a multifaceted project that demonstrates how
artists of all disciplines, from Constantin Meunier
to Christian Boltanski, have drawn their inspiration
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from the subsoil; how the mine and its powerful
impact on society have refreshed or completely
revolutionised the path of all those workers who
have moved from pick to pen and from hammer to
brush, to express the universal scope of their daily
reality.
Un projet de l’Ecomusée du Bois-du-Luc - Site minier du Bois-duLuc, Patrimoine mondial de l’Humanité. Coproduit par la Fondation
Mons 2015. En partenariat avec le Service des Arts Plastiques du
Hainaut, la Biennale ARTour - Centre culturel Régional du Centre, le
Musée de la Mine Robert Pourbaix et l’asbl SAICOM - Sauvegarde
des Archives industrielles du Couchant de Mons. Avec le soutien
scientifique de Jean Louvet et de Claude Favry.
ON FIRE, ARTS ET SYMBOLES DU FEU
EXHIBITION / DESIGN CENTRE KÉRAMIS - LA LOUVIERE
TUE. > SUN. 10:00 > 18:00
6€
WWW.KERAMIS.BE
A unique site for exhibitions and artistic residencies
will be added to the Belgian cultural landscape in
spring 2015: the Keramis Centre for Ceramics. On
the historic site of the Boch earthenware factory,
the art centre opens its doors with On fire, a
contemporary art exhibition dedicated to fire: an
essential factor in ceramics and a powerful symbol
of our collective imagination. The Belgian ceramicist
Emile Desmedt will create a monumental work
there using the furnace sculpture technique. The
work, called Imago, resembling a 5-metre-high
spindle fixed into the earth, will then remain at this
new arts centre.
On the occasion of Mons 2015, Keramis will also
oversee the creation of a functional object that will
be added to its collection. Devised by designer
Alain Berteau (Objekten), it will be made in the
workshops of the Centre for Ceramics by Emile
Desmedt and Luigi Restaino, the last surviving
mould-maker from Boch. This project also
prefigures the reopening in La Louvière of an art
and ceramic design studio by 2016-2017.
L’œuvre d’Emile Desmedt et la réalisation de l’objet d’Alain Berteau
sont une coproduction du Centre Keramis et de la Fondation Mons
2015.
JASPER MORRISON
EXHIBITION / DESIGN GRAND-HORNU IMAGES
TUE. > SUN. 10:00 > 18:00
8€ / 4€
WWW.GRAND-HORNU-IMAGES.BE
Jasper Morrison (London, 1959) is a designer
respected and celebrated around the world. GrandHornu is thrilled to host his first-ever retrospective.
This major event will bring together key moments
in his 35-year career, across furniture, kitchenware
and home electronics. These pieces will be accompanied by archival material in a specially designed
installation that stays true to his principle of beguiling simplicity. Jasper Morrison designs objects that
we love to live with but whose qualities might go
barely noticed. He believes that good design has
less to do with making products noticeable than
with making sure they are useful. He has worked
with leading manufacturers in Europe including
Cappellini, Alessi, Flos, Magis and Vitra; Japanase
brands such as Muji; and technology companies
Samsung and Sony. He opened his Office for
Design in London in 1986. He currently has offices
in London, Paris and Tokyo.
Un projet de Grand-Hornu Images, Province de Hainaut en
coproduction avec la Fondation Mons 2015. Avec le soutien de la
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.
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IN THE CONTEXT OF LE RŒULX, VILLE PARTENAIRE
CLOUDS
EXHIBITION CHÂTEAU DU RŒULX
TUE. > SUN. 10:00 > 18:00
10€/7€ / FREE ENTRANCE - 7YEARS
Merveilleux et magique, branché sur l’infini, le
nuage est pour tout être humain la plus fantastique
des machines à rêves. Combinaison de contraires
et d’extrêmes, foisonnant, inépuisable, en perpétuelle métamorphose, il est de toute évidence
la métaphore même du vivant. Dans le cadre
prestigieux et historique du château des Princes de
Croÿ, au Roeulx, la Fondation Croÿ-Roeulx propose
un événement artistique majeur, une EXHIBITION
autour du regard d’artistes modernes et contemporains sur le plus humain des corps célestes. Une
version inédite du thème, qui, en écho au génie
du lieu – le Château, l’Orangerie et les jardins –,
est pensée comme une véritable “horticulture”
du nuage. Une trentaine d’artistes – de Jean Arp
à René Magritte, de Man Ray à Jaume Plensa,
de Robert Therrien à Michel François – associant
photographies, peintures, vidéos, sculptures, installations, peupleront cette promenade-découverte du
Château du Roeulx qui ouvrira exceptionnellement
à l’occasion de cet événement.
Commissariat scientifique: Michèle Moutashar, Conservateur en
Chef honoraire du patrimoine (Musées de France)
Coordination de la production: Sophie Chartier, Directrice de
SoChart International.
Un projet de la Fondation Croÿ-Roeulx en coproduction avec la Ville
du Roeulx et la Fondation Mons 2015.
Treetops est partenaire privilégié de l’EXHIBITION Clouds.
IN_OUT
EXHIBITION / ARCHITECTURE
MUSÉE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE - CHARLEROI
7€/5€ / FREE ENTRANCE - 12YEARS
WWW.MUSÉEPHOTO.BE
With 2015 nearly upon us, Mons is changing fast.
With huge renovation projects, new museums and
cultural and public facilities, and efforts to regenerate districts, architecture is at the heart of the
European Capital of Culture and will be one of its
most enduring legacies. In 2012, eager to maintain
a powerful record of these changes, the Mons 2015
Foundation and the City of Mons commissioned
three photographers and a film-maker, Maud
Faivre, Pierre Liebaert, Rino Noviello and Zoé Van
der Haegen, under the supervision of the architect
Marc Mawet, to report on the urban, landscape and
architectural changes in the city.
In_Out offers a look at the artistic dimension of
these three years of work through a selection of
images whose compelling nature reflects the artists’ engagement. Stripped of any reference to the
sites they depict, the photographs come together
and set up a mutual dialogue to assert a strong,
independent and common narrative.
Un projet de la Ville de Mons et de la Fondation Mons 2015 en
coproduction avec le Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi.
STEPHAN VANFLETEREN, CHARLEROI MISSION PHOTOGRAPHIQUE
EXHIBITION / PHOTOGRAPHY
MUSÉE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE - CHARLEROI
TUE. > SUN. 10:00 > 18:00
7€/5€ /FREE ENTRANCE - 12YEARS
WWW.MUSÉEPHOTO.BE
Every year since 2010, a Belgian or foreign photographer has taken to the roads to explore Charleroi and
its region. Chosen for their specific approach or their
aesthetic quality, and given the freedom to interpret
their mission according to their own sensibility, they
have put together a photographic memory of the
territory of Hainaut through their reports.
After the first two such assignments, entrusted to
Bernard Plossu and Dave Anderson, three other
assignments have been carried out within the
framework of Mons 2015: in 2013, the Swedish pho-
tographer Jens Olof Lasthein presented a beautiful
set of panoramic colour shots, full of humanity and
marked by the powerful encounters he experienced
during his stay. Following him, in 2014, the French
photographer Claire Chevrier produced an almost
geometrical survey of a fast-changing city. The
project will be brought to a close by the Belgian photographer Stephan Vanfleteren, whose 2014 mission
will be on display in the museum in 2015.
Un projet du Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi, en coproduction
avec la Ville de Charleroi et la Fondation Mons 2015.
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RÉOUVERTURE DU MUNDANEUM
MAPPING KNOWLEDGE:
COMPRENDRE LE MONDE
PAR LES DONNEES
INAUGURATION / MUSEUM / EXHIBITION / DIGITAL
MUNDANEUM - MONS
TUE. > SUN. 13:00 > 18:00
THU. 13:00 - 20:00
WWW.MUNDANEUM.ORG
Dubbed the “paper Google” (Le Monde) and “The
Web time forgot” (New York Times), the Mundaneum is the visionary brainchild of Paul Otlet and
Henri La Fontaine who, from 1895, aimed to collect
and index all knowledge! Archives centre and
exhibition space designed by François Schuiten
and Benoit Peeters, the Mundaneum preserves a
precious documentary heritage, about basically
everything. The exhibition "Mapping Knowledge.
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Understanding the world through data” marks its
big reopening after works. An interactive travel to
the heart of the universe of information: from pioneers of data visualization to contemporary artists
who take a new look at the complexity of today’s
world…
Commissaire: Vincent Delvaux (BE). Une coproduction du Mundaneum et de la Fondation Mons 2015, avec le soutien de Google
et du Commissariat Général au Tourisme, en collaboration avec le
CETIC, l’AWT et le réseau Knowescape, en partenariat avec RTBF
La Première et La Trois.
IN THE CONTEXT OF THUIN, VILLE PARTENAIRE
FLUIDE
EXHIBITION / ART IN CITY / WALKING TOUR
THUIN - CENTRE VILLE
WWW.CENTRECULTURELDETHUIN.BE
The city in all its diversity and with its direct contact
with the public is treated by artists as a creative
material in its own right. For Fluid, Thuin, noted
for its remarkable heritage, receives some twenty
Belgian and international contemporary artists. They
up-end it, scrutinise it and invite you to take a fresh
look at its history, language and culture. Private and
public spaces and iconic sites are used to display
works which will then remain in the city. As part of
Mons 2015, the route is thus designed for the long
term. Fluid instigates a profound examination of
contemporary urban reality.
Artistes: Olivier Cornil, John Cornu, Jérôme Considérant, Sara Conti,
Michaël Dans, DSCTHK, Djos Janssens, Olivier Kosta-Thefaine,
Sophie Langohr, Christine Mawet, Ludovic Mennesson, Philémon
et Arnaud Verley, Société volatile, Xavier Rijs, Jonathan Sullam,
Christophe Terlinden, Adrien Tirtiaux, Stephan Vee.
Un projet de la Ville de Thuin en coproduction avec le B.P.S.22
espace de création contemporaine de la Province de Hainaut et la
Fondation Mons 2015. Avec le soutien de la Province de Hainaut et
de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.
ÉNERGIE !
EXHIBITION PASS
10€ / 7€ / FREE ENTRANCE - 6 YEARS
WWW.PASS.BE
Grey energy, green energy, fossil energy... We are
interested in energy sources and their impact on
the environment. And we are told that we should be
using less energy.
approach to this highly topical theme, and an
opportunity to make some surprising discoveries
and get to grips with energy, our use of it and sustainable development.
We talk about energy every day, but do we really
know what it is? A quirky exhibition addressing the
subject of energy and exploring its relationship with
society today and tomorrow. Visitors can try out
some unusual experiments in which they convert
their own muscular energy. This is a light-hearted
Un projet du Parc d’Aventures Scientifiques et de la Fondation Mons
2015.
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MON ÉNERGIE - TOMI UNGERER
EXHIBITION / YOUTH PASS
WWW.PASS.BE
Poster artist, author, illustrator, inventor of objects,
collector and commercial artist, Tomi Ungerer is a
multi-talented French artist most of whose work is
aimed at young people. He is inspired by the theme
of energy in general and electricity in particular,
and in this exhibition presents humane and talented
drawings that illustrate the use of energy in our
daily lives. Funny situations, recalcitrant household
appliances, a poetic vision of power lines... For the
artist, energy is always close to humans and in the
service of the environment.
Un projet d’EDF Luminus et de la Fondation EDF en partenariat
avec le PASS et la Fondation Mons 2015.
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IN THE CONTEXT OF SOIGNIES, VILLE PARTENAIRE
RENCONTRES DE SCULPTURE
MONUMENTALE
SOIGNIES, PATRIMOINE VIVANT
EXHIBITION/ FESTIVAL SOIGNIES - CENTRE VILLE
WWW.CENTRE-CULTUREL-SOIGNIES.BE
Soignies, a city of heritage, art and history, invites
Mons 2015 to consider its local treasure: blue
stone. Soignies, Living Heritage is an intense month
of activity in Soignies relating to the precious
mineral. One of the highlights of the event for the
quarrymen’s city will be the fifth ‘Encounters with
Monumental Sculpture’ in August 2015 in close
collaboration with local quarries. During a two-week
residency, you can admire Belgian and international
artists in the open air, at work on the stone. From
the monolithic blocks, under the eyes of the public,
monumental, contemporary and original works will
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IN THE CONTEXT OF CHARLEROI, VILLE PARTENAIRE
BATEAU PAYSAGE - BAS SMETS
EXHIBITION / WALKING TOUR QUAI DE L’IMAGE - CHARLEROI
FREE ENTRANCE
Belgian architect and landscape designer, Bas
Smets offers another reading of our territories.
The the canal systems which connects Charleroi
to Mons offers an outstanding compendium of
hydraulic techniques. On the occasion of Mons
2015, he chose to highlight and reveal the identity
of both heritage and characteristic of Hainaut, while
strengthening the existing of historical ties between
Charleroi and Mons.
Une coproduction de la Ville de Charleroi et de la Fondation Mons 2015.
emerge that will adorn the city for the next few
years.
Exhibitions, events, guided tours, heritage routes
and shows will be organised around the symposium.
Un projet de la Ville de Soignies et du Centre culturel de Soignies
en coproduction avec la Fondation Mons 2015. En partenariat avec
l’Office communal du Tourisme de Soignies, Maison de la Laïcité de
Soignies, La Pierre bleue belge, Carrières du Hainaut.
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IN THE CONTEXT OF VALENCIENNES, VILLE PARTENAIRE
RÊVERIES ITALIENNES
LA CHUTE D’EAU D’ANTOINE WATTEAU
ET LE PAYSAGE FRANÇAIS AU XVIIE SIECLE
EXHIBITION MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS - VALENCIENNES
TUE. > SUN. 10:00 > 18:00
THU. 10:00 - 20:00
5€ / 2.6€ / FREE ENTRANCE - 18YEARS
Valenciennes, a City of Arts and History, is the birthplace of one of the most famous French painters
of the 18th century: Antoine Watteau (1684-1721).
The Museum of Fine Arts has a collection of works
by the painter which will soon be expanded thanks
to the discovery by a private collector of one of the
very few known landscape paintings of Antoine
Watteau. The previously unknown work represents
a waterfall inspired by the famous Tivoli waterfalls
near Rome. It thus reflects Watteau’s fascination for
a country he never had the chance to visit: Italy.
Taking advantage of this exceptional discovery, the
Museum of Fine Arts will explore the Italian reveries
that are found throughout Antoine Watteau’s work.
The exhibition, designed by the eminent American
scholar, Martin Eidelberg, will draw attention to the
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master’s indebtedness to the Italian model throughout his career. With a prestigious collection of
paintings and drawings by Antoine Watteau at their
core, works from the 16th and 17th centuries will
show how this painter of dreams drew on European
artistic culture to create works that in turn exerted
a power of fascination for French artists of the
Enlightenment such as François Boucher, Honoré
Fragonard and Hubert Robert.
LES MONDES INVERSÉS ART CONTEMPORAIN
ET CULTURES POPULAIRES
EXHIBITION BPS 22 - CHARLEROI
6€/4€/FREE ENTRANCE - 12YEARS
HTTP://BPS22.HAINAUT.BE
Following extensive renovations, B.P.S.22, the
Centre for Contemporary Creativity in Hainaut, will
reopen its doors as part of Mons in 2015 with a
contemporary art exhibition devoted to popular
culture, entitled Inverted worlds. Throughout history,
artists have been inspired by the popular culture
that surrounds them. The varied sources include
objects, crafts, patterns of social organisation and
behavioural practices. Even today, in Europe and
elsewhere, numerous visual artists draw inspiration
from this quarter.
Inverted worlds brings together a significant collection of contemporary art which borrows in various
ways from popular culture. Crossing disciplines and
drawing on the roots of local cultures (the Ducasse
de Mons, Binche Carnival, etc.), it invites international artists to take part in a major public encounter between contemporary art and popular culture.
Commissariat: Pierre-Olivier Rollin
Artistes pressentis: Ghada Amer ; Neal Beggs ; Davide Bertocchi ;
Jeremy Deller; Wim Delvoye; Gabriele Di Matteo; Jimmie Durham;
mounirfatmi; Subodh Gupta; Cameron Jamie ; Abdoulaye Konate ;
Jeff Koons ; Alma Lopez; Emilio Lopez-Menchero ; Paul McCarthy ;
Jean-Luc Moerman ; Jean-Jacques Mullier ; Takashi Murakami ;
Johan Muyle ; Chris Ofili ; Pierre et Gilles ; NavinRawanchaikul; HassanSarr ; YinkaShonibare ; Gert& Uwe Tobias ; Luc Tuymans ; Patrick
Van Caeckenbergh ; Raphaël Zarka.
Une production du B.P.S.22 et de la Fondation Mons 2015
en partenariat avec la Province de Hainaut, la Ville de Charleroi,
la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles et la Région wallonne.
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IN THE CONTEXT OF LILLE, VILLE PARTENAIRE
RENAISSANCE
Lille3000
FESTIVAL / ART IN THE CITY / WALKING TOUR LILLE
WWW.LILLE3000.COM
Celebrating the New World
An openness to the world, artistic exchanges,
technology: Renaissance (Rebirth) is the brandnew version of Lille3000, with the ambitious aim
of demonstrating the vitality of today’s world.
Like the Renaissance of the 16th century that was
marked by a remarkable intellectual and artistic
revival, the early 21st century in which we live is a
turbulent time, but a new world is emerging. This
huge metamorphosis is coupled with intellectual
and artistic movements that serve to renew forms
of art and expression, and that are creating a new
relationship with the world. Renaissance will seek
to capture this promising impetus. An opening
parade, major exhibitions, urban metamorphoses,
shows, do-it-yourself, inflatables, lights, design,
food, debates, never-before-seen events… Artists
and experiences from all over the world are coming
to greet the people of Mons in this open and joyful
spirit. Be reborn with them!
Mayor exhibitions:
Renaissance at Tripostal
Detroit City at Gare Saint-Sauveur
La Joie de vivre at Palais des Beaux-Arts
And many more in the Lille EuroMetropole
LUMIÈRES SUR LES CITÉS - FRANCOIS SCHUITEN
EXHIBITION CENTRE DE LA GRAVURE - LA LOUVIÈRE
TUE. > SUN. 10:00 > 18:00
6€ / 4€ / 3€
WWW.CENTREDELAGRAVURE.BE
The Belgian François Schuiten is a cartoonist and
set designer. He takes us into imaginary worlds,
both near and far. These worlds, from Pahry to Brüsel via Samaris and Kobenhavn, are at the heart of
the Cités Obscures, a series produced in collaboration with Benoît Peeters since 1982.
Lumières sur les Cités plunges the visitor into a
world of ghostly images which appear and vanish
from sight in response to light and shade. The
images only appear if the visitor lingers, to reveal
mysterious phenomena and unexplored passages.
The exhibition will combine numerous original
pictures and prints (serigraphs, lithographs, posters, etc.), and will focus on work donated to the
museum. For the occasion, François Schuiten will
produce some new pictures relating to emblematic
sites in La Louvière, some of which have disappeared, while others can still be seen. This journey
in the future perfect is a plea for the memory of
our cities to give us a taste of the adventure of the
future.
Une production de Centre de la Gravure et de l’image imprimée en
coproduction avec la Fondation Mons 2015
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NERVIA - LAETHEM SAINT-MARTIN
EXHIBITION MUSÉE D’IXELLES
TUE. > SUN. 09:30 > 17:00
THU. 10:00 > 20:00
8€ / 5€
WWW.MUSÉEDIXELLES.BE
Ixelles Museum , which serves as the embassy
for Mons 2015 in Brussels, brings together the
north and south of the country for an exhibition.
Under the joint Flemish and Walloon curatorship of
Michel de Reymacker (BAM-Mons) and Catherine
Verleysen (MSK-Ghent), the exhibition Nervia - Laethem-Saint-Martin sets up a dialogue between two
artistic movements from the interwar period: the
Nervia group from Hainaut, launched by Léon Eeckman in 1928 and bringing together artists such as
Anto Carte, Louis Buisseret, Léon Navez, Taf Wallet,
and the Flemish Laethem-Saint-Martin group. This
latter included Valerius De Saedeleer, Gustave Van
de Woestijne and Binus Van den Abeele.
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Despite their separate histories, the exhibition
highlights the areas of convergence and points of
divergence between both groups, improving our
appreciation of the richness and specific qualities
of their output and our understanding of the shared
context in which they operated.
Une coproduction du Fonds Eeckman, de la Commune d’Ixelles
et de Mons 2015.
SOMMET EUROPÉEN
DES ARTS APPLIQUÉS
EXHIBITION / DESIGN WORLD CRAFTS COUNCIL - MONS
TUE. > SUN. 12:00 > 18:00
6€ / 4€
WWW.WCC-BF.ORG
Firmly based in Mons, the French-speaking Belgian
section of the World Crafts Council (WCC) brings
together over 200 Belgian designers and promotes
contemporary applied arts. In 2015, it will hold a
European Summit of Applied Arts, an international
cultural project consisting of five main events. The
launch of the third European Prize for Applied Arts
will open this ambitious programme: a triennial
competition open to designers from all over Europe,
in all applied art and craft disciplines. The winning
works will be exhibited in the Main Hall of the Former Slaughterhouse in Mons throughout the three
months of the event.
In late October, the WCC will also put Mons on
the international stage by hosting the General
Assembly of the WCC-Europe and organising an
international colloquium on the applied arts. In a
spirit of openness to new directions, this ambitious
programme will include a festival of film screenings,
master classes at the Sars-Poteries Glass Museum
(Maubeuge) and an exhibition of Belgian ceramics
at the La Piscine museum in Roubaix.
Un projet du WCC-BF en coproduction avec la Fondation Mons
2015 et en partenariat avec le WCC-Europe,avec le soutien
de la Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, la Ville de Mons et Design
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Move along, there’s everything to see!
How do you create a festival in the city of the Doudou? How do you give everyone the
immersive experience of a collective adventure? How do you create the shockwaves
needed to kick start one crazy year? To tackle this tough challenge (one that all European
capitals of culture face) we had to make some pretty radical decisions… First of all, we
decided to work across the scope of the whole city. Rather than one single, unifying show,
we wanted to include various places around the city. All of the available spaces throughout
the city are to be offered to artists from all over Europe and will be transformed with
a particular aim in mind: to dazzle! And the public, as and when they feel like it, can
(re)discover the city, transformed overnight into a truly enchanting capital.
However, celebrating is also about getting together with friends for a drink and a dance!
Iconic cultural venues in the Capital of Culture will receive full makeovers to be converted
into dance floors, and with a range of different sounds: folk-rock at Le Manège, electro at
La Maison Folie, percussion at Le Conservatoire de Musique and classic disco (yes, that is
a real thing!) at the Alhambra. All night long!
The aim is the same for all public events of 2015: sit back and let the artists transform
our daily lives. Whether through ‘visual art’ installations catching your eye in the park or
on street corners (from 29 March to 21 September); or street performances by visual
artists, dancers or comedians (La Ville en Jeu(x) [The City at Play], from 14 to 24 May),
there is one common theme to our selections: inviting artists from all over the world to
explore the idea of the public space, bringing new meaning to those spaces where people
come together and live together, as well as inviting everyone else to make their own
interpretation of what that means for them… without discussion, without conditions, without
any preconceived notions… Move along, there’s everything to see!
In a second wave, you can go for partying in the immediate region with for instance cities
like Lille, Ghent and other partner.
22 partner institutions and 18 partner cities make it a celebration of 2015 Maubeuge,
Valenciennes and Lille in northern France, and Liege, Brussels, Mechelen, Bruges, Kortrijk,
Ostend, Antwerp and Ghent.
Hainaut municipalities, 12 municipalities in the Borinage and Merbes-le-Château, Picard
Wallonia, Soignies, Thuin, Le Roeulx and La Louviere co-produce a number of events
with an ingenious system co. Mons 2015 explores again carefully the socio-cultural
characteristics of each of its direct or potential partners and entered into a meaningful
long-term relationship with it which leads to a bigger and stronger regional and
international network.
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A gastronomical year
What is more cultural than the kitchen? The kitchen houses our memories, our emotions,
our identity, but is also a port, where it is an art to share, to find a place to celebrate, to be
themselves. Mons 2015 realized very quickly that gastronomy and Mons inhabitants were
two peas in a pod.
The five editions of the Dimanches toques and their thousands of star lunches were
already fully booked even warmed up for the stoves in the gardens of the Belfry!
A 6th edition of Dimanche Toqué (06.09.2015 - Grand Place and Parc du Belfry) ends
Le Festin, in September 2015, the first festival that couples the creations of local artists
to a popular and festive event.
There are also a 16th century banquet, mystery dinners, trendy canteens (see below) and a
festival of local producers. The municipalities of the Greater Mons invite you at the table to
discover their participation projects.
A restaurant guide will help you even further throughout the year on the right weg.
In early January 2015, the Guide Mons is displayed with 50 top addresses from the range
gourmet restaurants. The classic guide is complemented by a number of recipes.
The guide was distributed in 2014 to 5000 copies and contained 42 restaurants including
three restaurants which have obtained a Michelin stars: D’Eugénie à Émilie (Baudour),
Les Gourmands (Blaregnies) and L’Imperatif (Maisières).
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SOUPER MYSTÉRIEUX
PARC DU CHÂTEAU DE BOUSSU.
EVENING
Take part in a mysterious meal for 200 people in a place that is kept secret until the day itself. Two great
chefs go to work with local products.
10.10.15
>11.10.15
BANQUET DUBROEUCQ
CHÂTEAU DE BOUSSU
A large XVI century banquet. You enjoy the refined cuisine of Lancelot de Casteau, accompanied by the
music of Orlandus Lassus in a setting designed by Jacques Du Broeucq? Then you are a guest at the
extraordinary renaissance banquet, decorated for the occasion by caterer Yves Cousin and graced by the
ensemble Zefiro Torna and the choir Mezza Voce!
GRAND 8: 8 BANQUETS, 8’ TERRITOIRES
03.05.2015 Ghlin
17.05.2015 Hyon
14.06.2015 Jemappes
21.06.2015 > 13.09.2015 Mons Spiennes
27.09.2015 Cuesmes
11.10.2015 Nimy
29.08.2015 St Denis
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TRENDY KANTINES
In 2015 eateries go poetic tour to be digitally cafes, hanging gardens and pubs like to do crazy ...
You are a teacher in a secondary school, and you want to sit down after your visit with your students from
Wépion, Brussels and Ghent or after your visit to the Verlaine’s exhibition, you can eat a sandwich and
bring it yourself. Meeting in the Bistrot Folie, stopping families, students and tourists from around the world.
You like Charles Plisnier and dream to hear his words in music and with others to exchange views with a
glass of absinthe? Welcome to the literary cafe Maison Losseau. You are a journalist and are looking for
a classy but cozy place to eat and run by Wajdi Mouawad between two rehearsals of his Sophocles cycle
a call? Appointment at the theater restaurant Le Manege, under a sky full of origami birds…
The pricing policy is to keep prices accessible and democratic.
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TRENDY CANTEENS
TUE. > SUN. (+ WITH PERFORMANCES)
KITCHEN: 12:00 > 14:30 AND 18:30 > 23:00
Accommodation: cozy and chic theater restaurant with large wooden tables and origimi-vogles as playful
details
12 tables of 6 + 8 + 100 tables of 4 chairs or sofas.
60 places inside + 30 places on the terrace
Chef Fabien Prévot
BAR 106
TRENDY CANTEENS
MON. > SUN. 9:00 > 18:30
This bar for teams and guests is suitable for pic-nics for 20 people
01.15
>12.15
CAFE EUROPA
TRENDY CANTEENS
MON. > SUN. 10:00 > 20:00 (+EXTRA OPEN DEPENDING ON PROGRAM)
Accommodation: Bar with upcycling interior built from containers and pallets, with WIFI, screens, computers and ... hot technology
50 seats inside + 50 seats outside
04.15
>09.15
MAISON LOSSEAU - GUINGUETTE LITTÉRAIRE TRENDY CANTEENS
THU. > SUN. 15:00 > 19:00 (SUN. 16:00)
Bar, bookshop and event tent van100m with low tables and seats with romantic decor
24.01.15
>31.12.15
BISTRO FOLIE
TRENDY CANTEENS
WED. > SUN. 11:30 > 23:00 (+EXTRA OPEN DEPENDING ON PROGRAM)
KITCHEN: 12:00 > 14:30 AND 18:30 > 23:00
Bistro for families and groups with sandbag and petanque
Picnic Area for groups (10 tables and benches)
60 places inside and 20 places on the terrace
ALHAMBRA
TRENDY CANTEENS
OPEN FUNCTION OF CONCERTS AND EVENTS
Intimate concert hall with bar and seats
327 places
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WOODEN INSTALLATION
ARNE QUINZE
ART IN CITY MONS INTRAMUROS - RUE DE NIMY
06.12.14: INAUGURATION
FREE ENTRANCE
DURING 5 YEARS
SUN.
14
12
2014
The conversion of the Palais de Justice car park
into a pedestrian area provided the perfect opportunity to set up the largest installation of Mons 2015.
A tree-like structure of the kind that Arne Quinze, a
43-year-old Flemish artist, enjoys creating all over
the world. The first of them, in Nevada, gained him
a worldwide reputation in 2006, and following Cityscape on Avenue de la Toison d’Or, and Séquence
in Brussels – a timber forest that connects the two
buildings of the Flemish Parliament.
In Mons, his installation will be 90 metres long
and 18 metres high, between the Church of St
Elizabeth and the Maison Losseau. The latter has
been turned into a literary centre, and there will also
be poetry in this Wooden Installation covered with
fluorescent paint. Metaphors for the bonds between
us, there is something fascinating about Arne
Quinze’s installations. Because they resemble us:
at once fragile and tough, ephemeral and indelible.
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LA PHRASE LITERATURE / ART IN CITY / WALKING TOUR
MONS INTRAMUROS
GRATIS
KARELLE MENINE: MULTIDISCIPLINARY WRITER
RUEDI BAUR: GRAPHIC DESIGNER
A sentence in capital letters wanders on the walls
of the city, awakens our literary past, tells, imagines,
plays with poets from Mons… this sentence is ours.
Over ten kilometres, in a beautifully painted typography, literature opens up to the street. The Phrase
wanders and its words belong to us.
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PHILIPPE KAUFFMANN
Philippe Kauffmann exchange worked
for over twenty years to bring together artists
and audiences both in the arts and in the
cinema: first within the association’’s INDIGO
or Short circuit (Rock) and then the “Halles
de Schaerbeek” as Artistic Director and
finally in “tHE PARTi”, specialized in animation (studios PicPic André Ernest & Celestine)
and fiction (Aaltra, Calvary, Kill me please
...). Since 2003 he is also the artistic adviser
to several festivals and cultural institutions,
mainly in France: The Maturing of the Night
(summer cultural festival Rennes - since
2004); The project Metamorphoses the
project for Marseille-Provence 2013; The
Depayz’arts festival, control of the General
Council of Seine & Marne. He is currently
artistic advisor for Mons 2015.
Opening Ceremony
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PARTY / ART IN CITY
OPENING
CEREMONY
Illumination is the theme of the Mons 2015
grand opening ceremony. You will be turned into
a living mirror ball when you pull on one of the
18,000 silver ponchos that will be distributed for
free. Then just wander around! There is no schedule
for exploring every street, park and building that
the artists have transformed. Light the thousands
of candles that will set Place du Parc ablaze. Be
dazzled by the 3D mapping of Carré des Arts and
Arne Quinze’s forest. Or learn to dance with a
hundred fluorescent robots at Place du Marché aux
Herbes. All the artists will be out and about, but if
you wander into the cultural venues, look out! It’ll be
Woodstock at the Théâtre du Manège and jazzed
up classics at the Alhambra. Overwrought? Then
drift off into a reverie at the Belfry with the luminous
elves who watch over the sleeping dragon. Treat
yourself to a Finnish jacuzzi, then head back to the
Grand’Place and dance into the small hours. Cue
the lights!
18:00 > 00:00
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MONS INTRAMUROS
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+ AFTER PARTIES
(GRAND-PLACE, THÉÂTRE DU MANÈGE,
MAISON FOLIE, ALHAMBRA…)
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FREE ENTRANCE
Philippe Kauffmann, artistic director of
the opening ceremony: ‘There is a midway point
between the bouncy castle and cutting-edge
creativity. Our one principle was to entrust the
ceremony to artists and to tell a powerful story. The
Mons 2015 version is thus neither folklore nor mere
entertainment. An artist is involved in all projects,
because a strong artistic approach puts the story
across effectively. If the artist’s imaginative world
is sufficiently potent, this will get people thinking,
and above all it will move them emotionally. We are
attempting to invent new forms for the relationship
between artists and the public, encouraging
genuine encounters, the sense of sharing a unique
moment in a context that is itself unique.
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IN THE CONTEXT OF JEAN-PAUL LESPAGNARD, INVOLVED ARTIST
PONCHOS
PARTY / ART IN CITY MONS INTRAMUROS
FREE ENTRANCE
As soon as you set foot in Mons, don one of the 18,000 reflective ponchos cut out of survival blankets.
Have no fear – your survival isn’t under threat! Just shine with a thousand lights, illuminating the city like
18,000 mirror balls at a gargantuan open-air nightclub. And the theme of the evening? Why, illumination, of
course!
ÀPD
24.01.15
ELECTRO-TUNNEL
FRED SAPEY-TRIOMPHE
INSTALLATION / ART IN CITY GARE PROVISOIRE DE MONS
It’s not a secret that the works of the future station of Mons will accompany visitors and commuters
throughout the year 2015. Fred Sapey Triomphe will install a sparkling ceiling suspended above the ramp
that gives access to the different platforms, to turn the temproary construction into a poetic and luminous
experience. Made up of thousands of LEDs, this interactive vault evolves every day based on objective
criteria such as volume and temperature.
En coproduction avec Eurogare S.A.
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15.06.15
>15.09.15
MONS EN 2015 PHOTOS
EXHIBITION / PARTY / ART IN CITY GARE PROVISOIRE DE MONS
18:00 > 24:00
ATELIERS FUCAM
FREE ENTRANCE
Clic-clac Kodak, the Mons photography club, has captured anything and everything of note in the city
since 1928. It therefore makes sense for it to be in the front row at Mons Station throughout the year
201[P1] 5 to show off the work of its members to travellers. Nine cubes of 52 photos project you into
another world.
Une coproduction de la Fondation Mons 2015 et du Royal Photo-Club Montois Asbl.
24.01.15
DRAGONS !
PARTY /ART IN CITY PLACE DE LA GRANDE PÊCHERIE
18:00 > 24:00
FREE ENTRANCE
There’s a place for folklore in the home of the ‘Doudou’! The organisers of the Ducasse de Messines (the
‘other’ Ducasse de Mons) have a unique collection of all the dragons of Europe. They plan to parade ten of
them through the streets of Mons. Be careful where you step, unless you still have a hair from a dragon’s
tail to protect you…
24.01.15
INSTALLATION DE FEU
PARTY /ART IN CITY PLACE DU PARC
18:00 > 24:00
FREE ENTRANCE
Within minutes, Place du Parc will be set ablaze. A hundred of you will help the Compagnie Carabosse
to light the thousands of candles on its fire installations, which have already lit up city squares all over
the world. A magical atmosphere, eyes shining, buildings dancing in the candle glow: what better way to
embody the ceremony’s theme of illumination?
24.01.15
ILLUMINATION DU BEFFROI
PARTY /ART IN CITY JARDINS DU BEFFROI
18:00 > 24:00
FREE ENTRANCE
Along with the ‘Doudou’ and the Neolithic flint mines at Spiennes, the baroque Belfry of Mons is entered
on the UNESCO Intangible Heritage list. Before it becomes a museum in May 2015, there is a good opportunity to illuminate it. After all, it is the watchtower of Mons... and on 24 January, it will be visible from afar!
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Hot Pots finlandais
FANTASTIC / lille3000
Pop Up « Jardins de Mode » (2012)
Bains nordiques
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KEYFRAMES
PARTY / ART IN CITY MARCHÉ AUX HERBES
18:00 > 24:00
FREE ENTRANCE
A hundred robots hanging from the building fronts on Marché aux Herbes will get you dancing. With their
sounds and LEDs that light up alternately, you will think they are really moving. And you’ll be moving too!
This will be even better than a nightclub, taking place in the open air; for photo enthusiasts, it is a direct
homage to Muybridge, the father of motion analysis.
24.01.15
LES SONS DES TÉNÈBRES
PARTY / ART IN CITY CONSERVATOIRE
18:00 > 24:00
FREE ENTRANCE
From the illuminated courtyard to the penumbra of a mysterious chapel, the students of ARTS², the Mons
Conservatory, combine sound, image and performance. Enveloping sounds, diabolical percussion, digital
projections, actors lurking in the shadows… Are you on another planet?
MAPPING 360°
PARTY / ART IN CITY COUR DU CARRÉ
18:00 > 24:00
FREE ENTRANCE
In the summer of 2014, the Cour du Carré des Arts was completely renovated and covered with five
monumental tarpaulins. On the ground, a fresco by graffiti artist Jean-Luc Moerman. But you haven’t seen
anything yet, because there’s also the video mapping on all four sides of the square: clips created by the
Belgian Dirty Monitors collective, projected in 3D and 360°. Definitely a head-turner!
24.01.15
HOT POTS FINLANDAIS
PARTY / ART IN CITY 106 RUE DE NIMY
18:00 > 24:00
FREE ENTRANCE
One of our TV ads showed a Finnish guy saying, ‘I’m from Mons – how about you?’ Who knows, you may
bump into him in one of the six Finnish jacuzzis or ‘hot pots’ at 106, Rue de Nimy, home of the Mons 2015
Foundation. After all, we’ve sweated on your behalf to put together the Capital of Culture programme. Now
it’s your turn!
24.01.15
SONG LINES
PARTY / ART IN CITY / PARTICIPATION RUE DE LA POTERIE
18:00 > 24:00
FREE ENTRANCE
Tombe la neige in Japanese, Italian or Korean? If you proceed down Rue de la Poterie at a steady pace,
you will hear the hit tune successively in all the languages present in Mons, with an enlarged photo of
these Mons singers from every part of the globe. A multicultural tribute by Flemish collective Het Pakt to
that native son of Mons, Salvatore Adamo.
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OPENING PARTY - ORIGINAL REMIX (titre provisoire)
PARTY / ART IN CITY MAISON FOLIE
18:00 > 03:00
FREE ENTRANCE
Organising the largest garden gnome customisation in the world is definitely the way to bring some
excitement to the Maison Folie, Mons 2015’s ‘place to crash’. Fanny Bouyagui and her collective from
Roubaix, Art Point M, are the kings of the VGs and the DJs. They also make clever use of fashion shows
and multimedia installations. Didier Fusillier from the Lille 3000 cultural programme swears by them. Need
we say more?
24.01.15
WOODSTOCK
PARTY / MUSIC THÉÂTRE LE MANEGE
18:00 > 02:00
FREE ENTRANCE
A brazier in front of the Théâtre du Manège and Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin in the main auditorium. But
also Brussels’ own Noa Moon singing Paradise and Flemish singer An Pierlé performing This burning. A
wind of freedom will blow through this 2015 version of Woodstock with a touch of flower power. After all,
as Capital of Culture, Mons is going to have its own revolution! (programming in progress and subject to
confirmation).
24.01.15
DISCOCLASSIX
PARTY / ART IN CITY ALHAMBRA
20:00 > 02:00
FREE ENTRANCE
Since he took charge in early 2014, the pianist Frank Braley has administered shock treatment to his musicians at the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia. So you thought classic music was all bow ties and delicately poised little fingers? Then get thee to the Alhambra for one crazy jam session. Nirvana unplugged is
still Nirvana!
24.01.15
CONCERTO DE PUBLIC
PARTY / ART IN CITY ÉGLISE STE ELISABETH
20:30 > 24:00
FREE ENTRANCE
An appetizer of «400 coups»! 400 musicians are recruted from the audience to perform together a masterwork. A maestro, a diva, a virtuoso… they all fly high and beautifully, they reach harmony!
A creation by Culture.Wapi and 18 municipalities from Picardic Wallonia, realised by Les Facteurs d’amour
with M.Zo, musical direction by Elio Baudimont and choreography by Gilles Monnart.
Une création proposée par Culture.Wapi et 18 communes de Wallonie picarde, réalisée par les Facteurs
d’amour avec M.Zo, à la directionartistique, Eloi Baudimont, à la direction musicale, Gilles Monnart à la
chorégraphie.
Une création proposée par Culture.Wapi et 18 communes de Wallonie picarde, réalisée par les Facteurs d’amour avec M.Zo, à la direction
artistique, Eloi Baudimont, à la direction musicale, Gilles Monnart à la chorégraphie.
24.01.15
SURROUND
PARTY / ART IN CITY SQUARE ROOSEVELT
20:30 > 24:00
FREE ENTRANCE
A bizarre musical campsite! Fifteen transparent igloo tents, lit from within, are placed in a circle in front of
St Waudru’s Church. In each of them, a dummy musician plays an instrument. Go into his tent to listen to
his part, then listen to the whole band by positioning yourself at the centre of the circle.
24.01.15
THE BEST IS YET TO COME
PARTY / ART IN CITY SAINTE WAUDRU
20:30 > 24:00
FREE ENTRANCE
To enter St Waudru’s Church, you will have to pass through the maze created by the famous Flemish
visual artist Filip Gillissen. He plays with gold in a way similar to his colleague Wim Delvoye who makes
unexpected use of earthenware and steel. You enter a 30-metre corridor which gradually fills up with gold
thread. And closes in on you like luxury primeval forest.
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POLYPHONIC INSTALLATION #2 VOX LUMINIS
PARTY / ART IN CITY SAINTE WAUDRU
18:00 > 20:00 CÉRÉMONIE PROTOCOLAIRE
21:00 > 24:00
FREE ENTRANCE
Orlando di Lasso’s music is not classical but magical. And he is one of the heroes of Mons 2015 together
with Van Gogh, Verlaine and Saint George. Four giant screens at the cardinal points of St Waudru’s Church.
Four singers from the Renaissance ensemble Vox Luminis. And their voices, mingling at the centre of the
nave. Guaranteed heaven on earth.
24.01.15
FIREWORKS
PARTY / ART IN CITY PLACE NERVIENNE
22:30 > 23:00
FREE ENTRANCE
A classic. The Opening Celebration will obviously get hers.
24.01.15
ENVOLÉE CHROMATIQUE
PARTY / ART IN CITY GRAND-PLACE
21:00 > 22:00
FREE ENTRANCE
White balloons that lift accordionists off the ground or dance slowly over Grand-Place, changing colour all
the while? That’s Envolée chromatique – a monumental urban opera that transports you to an irresistible
world of acoustic and visual enchantment. From Angers to Taiwan, not a spectator in the world has been
able to resist this light entertainment. You’ll be blown away!
24.01.15
DISCO!
PARTY / ART IN CITY GRAND-PLACE
22:00
FREE ENTRANCE
We’ll have done all we can to get you away from the Grand’Place, the very place where you would naturally
have ended up… We’ll have left you for lost in the alleys, dead ends, gardens, homes. But it’s OK now.
You’ve rediscovered the city, and you have the right to go there. After the fireworks at Place Nervienne,
there’ll be a mega rave into the early hours…
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WITH AMONG OTHERS
Bonom (Vincent Glowinski) / Calvin
Dussart et Charles Myncke / Atelier Pica
Pica / Maarten Vanden Eynde / Ox / Sébastien
Preschoux / Momo / Hell’o Monsters / Julia
Wlodkowski / Collectif Inject Love
Fresque de MOMO
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2015
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2015
INAUGURATION / ART IN CITY
URBAN
INSTALLATIONS!
And in the street they did arise
A new generation of completely liberated
artists is set to come hurtling into Mons! Their
mission is to touch every square, every street, every
cul-de-sac and all the places at the nerve centre
of the European Capital of Culture. However, we
aren’t fleeing our cultural institutions to impose
their productions across the city’s public spaces.
These installations are not intended to be open-air
exhibitions of contemporary art, but rather a series
of street-corner “arisings”. Then, it’s down to you
to make of them what you will; what would you
make of a pile of books cascading down the street
from a university window, or of a giant aquarium
in the lobby of a building? What about tagging on
walls or adverts by graffiti artists from all over the
place, even as far as New York?! The aim is to open
your eyes and, if we can’t offer you answers, to
encourage you to ask questions. Who am I? Where
am I going? What are we doing together? Isn’t that
the very meaning of art? You tell us….
MONS INTRAMUROS
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INAUGURATION : 04 .04.2015
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FREE ENTRANCE
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04.04.15
TRUE STORY
ART IN CITY MONS INTRAMUROS
FREE ENTRANCE
Have you ever seen the walled-up windows of Mons? What do you think they are hiding? For this original
project art students of the Ecole des arts au Carré, Calvin Dussart and Charles Myncke, wanted to pay
homage to comic books and fifties Hollywood movie posters by exhibiting reproductions of both over those
windows. The True Story.
04.04.15
> 26.08.15
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19.06.15
> 27.09.15
LE GRAND LARGE, TERRITOIRE DE LA PENSEE
EXHIBITION / ART IN CITY / WALKING TOUR MONS INTRA MUROS + MAGASIN DE PAPIER
WED. SAT. SUN. 12:00 > 18:00
Following on from the Robbe et Dutrieux editions, the Magasin de Papier gallery presents a series of original lithographs and videos all translating the vision of 24 Belgian and international artists. Complementing
these are 300 flags, deployed throughout the city, as well as at its marina, the Grand Large, continuing the
dialogue on the theme of transience.
Une exposition de Bruno Robbe et Daniel Dutrieux
04.04.15
> 21.09.15
A FOREST
ART IN CITY RUE DES FRIPIERS
FREE ENTRANCE
Since his exhibition in Iselp (Brussels), Bonom has picked up traits of Vincent Glowinsky. Belgium’s most
famous graffiti artist (to whom we already owe the pleasure of the octopus on the ceiling of the Alhambra)
is now leaving his graffiti tag behind for this: choreography filmed in splashes of light. He not only brings to
life, he also incarnates the ghostly beast that once drew on the walls of the city. Hypnotic.
ÀPD
04.04.15
DAPPLED TILE FRESCOES (working title)
ART IN CITY PASSAGE VICTOR HUGO
FREE ENTRANCE
Graffiti art is like hip hop: as inescapable as it is difficult to change. Yet that’s what Pica Pica manages to do by
working with a young American artist who reproduces the silhouettes of iconic Mons buildings through shadow
play. A dappled mosaic to be discovered in secret in the passage Victor Hugo. A behind-the-scenes opportunity. Passage Victor Hugo
04.04.15
> 21.09.15
RIVER OF BOOKS
FREE ENTRANCE
Spanish artist Alicia Martin couldn’t have found much better than the University of Mons (at Place Warocqué), for releasing her avalanche of books from a window. She has been developing these Biographias
since 2005 with a theatricality that captivates passers-by, and gets them to reflect, in this all-digital age,
on the future (or success?) of knowledge and memory.
04.04.15
> 21.09.15
SLOTH
FREE ENTRANCE
A colony of ‘sloths’ in the trees around Place du Parc? Artist Elodie Antoine decided to reproduce these
furry monkeys ‘because they have a very sculptural form… a kind of hairy hanging pouch whose face we
can’t see’. This fun piece also raises questions, and a hint of concern: are they alive?
04.04.15
> 21.09.15
MODERN MENHIRS
ART IN CITY PLACE DU PARC
FREE ENTRANCE
Three red-brick menhirs from the region? It’s Carnac at Mons… and Maarten Vanden Eynde’s touch of
humour. No one can highjack utensils and objects with such refreshing irony as the Flemish artist. But
there is also a serious element: didn’t he invent ‘Genetology’, the art of examining the ‘prime things’?
Duly noted.
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Cinetismons
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Inject Love
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04.04.15
> 21.09.15
AFFICHAGE DOUBLE
ART IN CITY RUE SAMSON
FREE ENTRANCE
Are you fed up with my advertising? Luckily, OX is too! The French graffiti artist openly promotes ‘Brandalism’ (brands and vandalism). This dissident made-in-the-UK street art either highjacks existing adverts or
creates new ones with the aim of ‘cleaning up’ public spaces. It’s Rue Samson… against Goliath!
In collaboration with Belgian Posters
04.04.15
> 21.09.15
CINETISMONS
ART IN CITY JARDIN GUSTAVE JACOBS - RUE D’HAVRÉ
FREE ENTRANCE
This will remind you, the ones in the forties, of your old craft classes. This installation of multicoloured
cables binding buildings evokes those boards with nails with threads stretched between them that filled
your younger years. Joking aside, Sebastien Preschoux’s talent means he has managed to create 3D by
multiplying visual effects. Not such a silly game…
ÀPD
04.04.15
FRESQUE DE MOMO
ART IN THE CITY RUE DE CANTIMPRET, 14
FREE ENTRANCE
13 kilometers! The writer of the world’s longest tag zigzagging across Manhattan unbeknownst to New
Yorkers, MOMO the graffiti artist (could that be a play on the name of MoMA, the New York modern art
museum?) creates new urban maps based on infinitesimal or monumental frescoes, like those here in
Mons, in zebra-striped colours. Eye-catching!
ÀPD
04.04.15
HELL’O MONSTERS
ART IN CITY RUE DU 11 NOVEMBRE
FREE ENTRANCE
Highjacking the symbols belonging to our esoteric mystical traditions and entrusting them to cartoons and
comics, tagging them around our streets and rendering them virtual on the internet, the Belgian collective
Hell’O Monsters is set to cast a spell over us all. An ironic look at the habits and customs of civilized humanoids in the form of a vibrant and enlightened fresco, on the theme of the Doudou popular festival.
Rue du Onze Novembre
04.04.15
> 21.09.15
VERY EXPENSIVE
ART IN CITY RUE DE CANTIMPRET 13
FREE ENTRANCE
With an avid interest for existential questions reflecting on everyday life, the Antwerp artist Julia Wlodowski
places a giant vase on a place mat. Very Expensive pays tribute to her Polish grandmother and reflects
ironically on the simple life that today’s consumer society seems to have made impossible. Take note, this
is precious!
04.04.15
> 21.09.15
INJECT LOVE (working title)
FREE ENTRANCE
The heart always returns in the work of the LOVE INJECT collective from the Belgian city of Ghent, often
to make a dent in the tyranny of happiness, like Lovestruck where a heart crushes a person in Maurizio
Cattelan’s way, or Heil Love and the pennants of ‘Reich de l’amour’ (Reich of Love). Make room for a huge
heart made from no-entry road signs, right at the border of Mons.
In collaboration with the city of Ghent
04.04.15
> 21.09.15
PUBLIC ART FITNESS
FREE ENTRANCE
After imprisoning you in a maze of golden lianas at the entrance of Sint Waudru, during the opening party,
the Flemish artist will be using gold, his favorite material, to plate a weight-lifting bench, left in the park
for you to use. But don’t see this as a critique of the endemic dictatorship of beauty and narcissism of our
time.
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THE ARTISTIC ARTISTIC
BARRICADES OF THE CITY
AT PLAY
Kurt Perschke / Station House
Opera / Amicale De Production / Groupenfonction / Roger Bernat/Groupe Ljud / Collectif
Rien De Spécial / Bonom (Vincent Glowinski) / Arts² / Ne Pas Plier / Ilotopie…
Dominoes
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2015
FESTIVAL / ART IN THE CITY
WALKING TOUR / PARTICIPATION
LA VILLE
MONS INTRAMUROS
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FREE ENTRANCE
EN JEU(X)
The Artistic artistic barricades
of the City at Play
Can you feel a little breeze of 1960’s
Situationism? A disruptive air of May 1968 in
this City at Play, left to the mercy of artists and
performers drafted in to stir up trouble? Is the giant
red ball getting stuck between different buildings
every day harmless? Are the multicoloured gods
wandering barefoot around the streets inoffensive?
Are the boards replacing the shattered busshelter window particularly funny? Yes and no.
Because these things help to paint the picture of
an ever more fraught environment, transformed
into advertising space, put to use with such a
systematic approach that it makes us regret the
great upheavals of freedom. Our artists are there
to remind you of this, and to invite you to think,
to act and to dance, as far as a state ofuntil you
enter a trance if need be! And perhaps you’ll have
a sudden urge to climb over the poetic barricade.
That is the City at Play, and she’s all yours…!
In the City at Play, a multitude of artists
and performers is taking over the city to stir up
trouble. From a huge red ball that changes location
every day to a 3 kilometre-long domino rally, there
are as many uprisings as you need to get you to
question and evaluate our ever more fraught urban
environment. We dare you: be subversive!
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RED BALL
INSTALLATION / ART IN CITY MONS INTRAMUROS
14.05>24.05.15
FREE ENTRANCE
Kurt Pershke’s huge red ball has already rolled its spherical mass around the world. It sits between two
buildings and because it’s inflatable, can be moved every day to suit the fancy of the artist or the passers-by touching it or bouncing off it. ‘It’s a great way to meet people,’ says Pershke, ‘and a good way to
awaken the imagination.’
DOMINOES
CIE STATION HOUSE OPERA
FREE ENTRANCE
The simplest ideas are the best. In this case, a simple line of dominoes. Except this one involves thousands of Ytong pieces, 3 kilometres long and set up by hundreds of volunteers. They go on and on, across
the street, through the parks, around buildings; they disappear, reappear, making their crazy way through
the city. A terrific chain of unity.
PRIDE
DANCE / PARTICIPATION MONS INTRAMUROS
FREE ENTRANCE
They have already participated attaken part in the opening of the Foundation Mons 2015 Foundation with
a huge silent miming event that engaged those taking part on a somewhat visceral level. In the same vein,
Groupefonction gets a group of people dancing in a public space, just like all those lovely people united by
the muffled beat that drove them little by little towards sheer exhaustion. Challenging.
Production Groupenfonction - Conception Arnaud Pirault
MÉDUSES
BONOM
PERFORMING / ART IN CITY SAINTE-WAUDRU
FREE ENTRANCE
Since his exhibition in Iselp, Brussels, Bonom has picked up traits of Vincent Glowinsky. Belgium’s most
famous graphic artist (to whom we already owe the pleasure of the octopus on the ceiling of the Alhambra)
is now leaving his graffiti tag behind for this: choreography filmed in splashes of light. On a giant screen
see him incarnate the ghostly beast he once drew on the walls of the city. Hypnotic.
LE CAMP
COLLECTIF RIEN DE SPÉCIAL
PERFORMING MONS INTRAMUROS
FREE ENTRANCE
Get yourself over to camp detox, from the three sidekicks of the Rien de Spécial (Nothing Special) collective. They attempt the impossible! One day without a smartphone, without social networks and without
clothes; basically, without the trappings of modern life that tie us all down. For what gain? Simple pleasures
like picking a flower, saying hello and forming real relationships with people. A challenge for us all.
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LJUD
ART IN CITY / WALKING TOUR MONS INTRAMUROS
FREE ENTRANCE
Members of the Slovene group Ljud have a keen eye for art. They just need to take a stroll to Brico, sign a
urinal, and sell the ‘Duchamp’ for 50 euros! Dressed as museum guards, they’ll do the same on the streets
of Mons: they’ll take a frame and make a Magritte from a cloud, or spot a Rothko in a rusty gate. Mons? It’s
one big open-air museum.
CHASSE AUX TRÉSORS
L’AMICALE DE PRODUCTION
14.05>24.05.15
FREE ENTRANCE
Acclaimed since reinventing the set at the Festival d’Avignon with Germinal, Julien Fournet, Antoine Defoort
and their friends this time tackle the concept of the treasure hunt by reinventing the wheel, or so they
claim… An unpredictable and exciting family activity, in every nook and cranny of the Capital of Culture.
DOMINI PÙBLIC
ROGER BERNAT
THEATRE / ART IN CITY / PARTICIPATION MONS INTRAMUROS
FREE ENTRANCE
The Catalan director Roger Bernat is set to gather a group of viewers and actors and will ask all of them via
headphones to perform the same actions he would to surf the web or use a software programme.
Amazing choreography, embodying the structure of the social network and computer logic we’re faced
with on a daily basis.
LUNA PARK
SUPERBE INTERACTIVE
DIGITAL / ART IN CITY MONS INTRAMUROS
FREE ENTRANCE
Virtuosos when it comes to digital animation, Namurian design studio Super Interactive has have what it
takes to make your hair stand on end. Like the snowball that passers-by moved around and watched twinkle before their eyes… on the front of a cathedral. A similar idea to giant mapping in Mons, but this time
with the world of luna parks, Pac-Man and Space Invaders. Very retro!
GENS DE COULEUR
ILOTOPIE
INTERVENTION / ART IN CITY MONS INTRAMUROS
FREE ENTRANCE
Like a horde of Benetton designer Greek gods: red, blue, green or stark naked, they wander the streets
to the amazement of passers-by and the distraction of drivers. For 35 years Bruno Schnebelin and the
activists of sound ‘Ilotopie’ have been launching their visual attacks, and wreaking havoc wherever they go.
No to indifference, but Yes to difference!
RÉPARATEUR DE RUE
INTERVENTION / ART IN CITY MONS INTRAMUROS
14.05>24.05.15
FREE ENTRANCE
Manu Tention, alias Emmanual Bayon, must be 23 at the most. There’s something endearing about him;
he’s something of a young entrepreneur, cheerful, unpretentious, and he does good work for cities and
their citizens. He applies and repairs his trademark, the colour red, on the city’s scrapes. In 2015, the Street
Repairer will devote his attention to Mons.
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VISITE GUIDÉE DÉCALÉE
MUSIC / WALKING TOUR MONS INTRAMUROS
FREE ENTRANCE
Don Fiasko: an entire programme for this ensemble of 12 musicians of variable shapes and sizes, formed
in Mons almost 17 years ago. Get into the irresistible groove of this urban sound system. It’s set to take you
on an entirely different visit of the city. Plus, it’s a permanent menace to public order, and you are invited to
succumb…
CRÉATION CAS
THEATRE / ART IN CITY MONS INTRAMUROS
FREE ENTRANCE
Attention all talents! Young actors can benefit from the influences abounding in the European Capital of
Culture. The CAS (the Centre of Arts and Sciences for the Federation of Wallonia-Brussels), has received
carte blanche to introduce their talent and put them in touch with industry professionals to encourage
lower-cost employment in the theatrical world. Never mind luxury, times are hard!
FÊTE DE CLOTÛRE
PARTY / ART IN CITY MONS INTRAMUROS
FREE ENTRANCE
How about a rave to finish off City at Play? Keep your smartphone close at hand and keep checking your
emails and the Mons 2015 Facebook page, as well as Twitter and Google+. In the 24 hours leading up to
the event, your pocket should be vibrating! Then, we won’t respond to a thing. The City is at Play, and the
rest is up to you… Bye for now!
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LABYRINTH OF SUNFLOWERS
ART POINT M (FANNY BOUYAGUI)
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8000 sunflowers lining 2000 metres of paths:
enjoy this poetical, playful, immersive maze which
will be set up for ten days on the Grand’Place.
Stroll around, follow the audio trail and discover a
multitude of installations scattered around this living
labyrinth – each a surprise for you to see and feel.
GRAND-PLACE VAN GOGH
Van Gogh painted them, they have planted.
It should say “she” because it is our involved artist
Fanny Bouyagui and collective Point M Art, crazy
enough to sow in July, on the Grand Place, a maze
of sunflowers 7500, which by the way required
two years of research at the School of Horticulture
Province. A thousand Entertainment is proposed.
In August, sip a cocktail at one of the 250 lounge
chairs that have supplanted these sunflowers,
headphones on his ears to listen as closely as
possible “acoustic” musicians who will perform live
on a kiosk. And while you bubbled, your children
are cared for in the Belfry Gardens where they can
have fun in an amusement park from another time.
Do not miss the opening of the circus Co. XY and
poetic living scales. And to close, go to the Grand
Large for a gathering of craft shows and a fireworks
show over the water. Ah, summer!
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SAINT JOHN’S EVE BONFIRES
FESTIVITIES & GASTRONOMY PLACE NERVIENNE / GRAND-PLACE
FREE ENTRANCE
Pagan societies used to celebrate fertility during the
summer solstice. In Mons, the bonfires re-emerged
on 23rd June 1990 and have not stopped since!
Parades at the sound of drums cross the City to
announce the creative participations of the towns
from the Grand Mons region (Grand Huit) and the
lighting of a bonfire on the Place Nervienne
ARMADA DES MILLE FEUX
ART IN CITY / WALKING TOUR GRAND LARGE
For several days, the Grand Large comes alive
with thousands of lights. On this occasion, a large
gathering of boats and barges will allow you to
enjoy concerts, theatrical scenes, naval show or
aquatic fireworks. Le Grand Large will be for a few
days, the place of confluence of the Picardy Culture
(Belgian and French), Walloon and Brussels.
FÊTES DE WALLONIE
CONCERT DE SALVATORE ADAMO
MUSIC GRAND-PLACE
Salvatore Adamo won his first radio contest at the
age of 16 with Si j’osais, in 1959, at the Théâtre
Royal of Mons. He was awarded the freedom of the
city in 2002. Adamo is from Mons. How about you?
Head for the Grand-Place in September: a classical
orchestra will accompany his biggest hits.
PARCOURS - 40
EXHIBITION / ART IN CITY
DIFFÉRENTS LIEUX DU CENTRE-VILLE
10.00 > 18.00
For two weekends, artists under the age of 40 take
possession of premises in the city centre (houses,
shops, barns, schools, etc.) or occupy museum
spaces which are not usually dedicated to their
mode of expression. Stroll through the city streets
and discover their work on this winding route…
Parcours -40
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WORKSHOP / PUBLICATIONS
A WEEK
CELEBRATING
COLLÉGIALE SAINTE-WAUDRU
CHAPELLE DU BÉLIAN
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J. DU BRŒUCQ
(1500~10, Mons - 1584, Mons)
THE ENIGMA OF CHARLES V’S
MASTER ARTIST
From 10 to 18 October 2015, exhibitions,
symposiums, celebrations and publications will
retrace the steps of Jacques Du Brœucq’s work.
Elusive and troubling, the Mons architect, sculptor
and ornamentalist, who was appointed Master
Artist to Emperor Charles V, still remains a mystery
to those trying to gain a closer understanding of
his great body of work, especially as much of it
has been lost. His work represents a milestone in
northern European Renaissance architecture and
was a source of fascination to his high-born and
knowledgeable patrons, such as Jean de HenninLiétard, the Emperor’s Grand Squire, Queen Mary
of Hungary, sister of Emperor Charles V and to
his benefactors, the canonesses of St Waudru’s
collegiate church. His architecture was exciting, his
ornamentation was enchanting and his sculptures
appealed to the emotions. The Château de Boussu,
statues belonging to the cathedral of Notre-Dame
in Saint-Omer, and fragments of the jube from St
Waudru’s collegiate church bear witness to his
honest response to the heady and trouble times in
which he lived. Thinkers, writers and artists were
developing a new understanding of Man founded
on knowledge and freedom of thought, but showing
support for the Reformation could be dangerous.
Du Brœucq, who was a Protestant, only escaped
execution through the intervention of the charitable
canonesses of St Waudru. As a penance and as a
sign of allegiance to Catholicism, he was required
to sculpt a statue of St Bartholomew, the patron
saint of the tanners of Mons. He is said to have
used his own face in his depiction of the martyr,
who was flayed alive, revealing through him the
tormented doubts of an artist directed towards
God. Troubled and profoundly humane, the gentle
gestures of his sculptures demonstrate a departure
from the inertness of medieval depictions; the
alabaster appears vibrant in the light – like the
paradoxes of life and faith. He has lain at rest
under the choir of Saint Waudru’s collegiate church
since 1584. His story is that of a gifted and much
admired artist who was true to his ideals.
L’HYPERGOTHIQUE TRANSPARENT
EXHIBITION SAINTE-WAUDRU/UMONS
24.01.15 > 26.04.15
3€
The canonesses of Saint Waudru demonstrated a
certain boldness by commissioning statues from Du
Brœucq that were the antithesis of the gothic style
of their church. Discover the riches and the contrasts of this fascinating place in this fun multimedia
exhibition designed by UMons.
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L’ART DE LA TABLE
EXHIBITION CHÂTEAU DE BOUSSU
Dishes, plates, glasses and cutlery are being exhibited at Château de Boussu between the walls designed
by Jacques Du Brœucq four centuries ago. The château, which is the only surviving work by the brilliant
Renaissance architect from Mons, is now a museum as well as a resource centre.
10 & 11.10.15
UN FASTUEUX BANQUET
GASTRONOMY PARC DU CHÂTEAU DE BOUSSU
12:00
Would you like to try the delicate dishes of Lancelot de Casteau whilst enjoying the music of Roland de
Lassus, in an ornamental setting designed by Jacques Du Brœucq himself? Then be our guest at this
exceptional Renaissance banquet recreated by caterer Yves Cousin, the musical ensemble of Zefiro Torna
and the Mezza Voce choir.
10.10.15
>13.12.15
DU BRŒUCQ REVIVAL
EXHIBITION CHAPELLE DU BÉLIAN - MONS
Simply step into the Bélian Chapel and you will find yourself at the Château de Boussu, at Mariemont or
in Saint-Omer, among statues and walls (many of them now lost) by the great Renaissance architect and
sculptor of Mons. A virtual world recreated by the UMons Faculty of Architecture.
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
CONFERENCE UMONS & CENTRE CULTUREL DE BOUSSU
12.10.15
>14.12.15
International historians and researchers explore the reconstruction of Mary of Hungary’s Palace and
Jacques Du Brœucq’s 1549 ornamental design for the banquet celebrating the succession by Philip II of
Spain of Emperor Charles V.
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IN THE CONTEXT OF GENT, VILLE PARTENAIRE
FESTIVAL DES LUMIÈRES
EXHIBITION GENT - CENTRE HISTORIQUE
FREE EVENT
WWW.LICHTFESTIVALGENT.BE
From the launch of the festivities, Mons 2015 leaves
for the routes of its vast territory. After the madness
of the Opening Celebration in Mons, Ghent, partner
city, takes the baton of the marvel. She has promised us light in the middle of winter!
Urban facilities, projections, light sculptures, performances... For four days, squares, canals, belfry and
streets of the historic centre will be the setting for a
surprising artistic schedule which invites you to take
a new look at the city and its jewels.
Artists and performers from all over Europe and the
entire world, more than 500,000 visits, Ghent will
be a meeting crossroads, a leading gathering place
around art and culture, inspiring, fascinating.
Ghent, crowned “UNESCO creative city of music”,
will also be a partner of Mons 2015 for the new
creation of the opera L’Autre Hiver by Dominique
Pauwels, Normand Chaurette, Denis Marleau and
Stéphanie Jasmin, project brought by LOD-muziektheater.
Festival des Lumières
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LE JARDIN IMPRESSIONNISTE
Pairi Daiza
DOMAINE DE CAMBRON
WWW.PAIRIDAIZA.EU
28,5€/26,5€/23,5€
Pairi Daiza, the Garden of the Worlds, leads its visitors on a trip from one continent to another, among
the plant, animal, cultural and spiritual riches
which can be found hidden in this domain formerly
inhabited by the Cistercian monks of the Abbaye de
Cambron.
Drawing inspiration from the homage being given
to Van Gogh, the park is opening, for Mons 2015,
a new garden inviting the visitor to take a path
inspired by the most beautiful works of impressionist artists. The theme of the garden is carried out so
that the views, lights and colours take us into the
universe of painters such as Monet, Manet, Pissarro
or Renoir.
The garden becomes the easel, the sky the canvas
and the plants the brush strokes.
The movement, the fleeting impressions, the fluidity
of the space materialise through a movement, as it
happens, of a flow of water which, like the pictorial
current, draws us into a universe that is both real and
bucolic inspired by the nature that surrounds us.
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IN THE CONTEXT OF DOUR, COMMUNE PARTENAIRE
LES TORNADES
DANS LES RUES DE DOUR, ELOUGES, BLAUGIES ET WIHÉRIES
FREE ENTRANCE
PROGRAMMATION EN COURS.
WWW.LESTORNADES.BE
Since 2010, every year on Pentecost, a crazy wind
blows over Wihéries.
In this small “village of musicians” named Dour, Les
Tornades, intimate street art festival, gathers every
year dozens of jugglers, magicians, storytellers,
actors, dancers and acrobats...
They come from
every corner of Belgium and Europe to lay at the
feet of the passers-by their latest creations and light
up the smiles of children and adults.
Exceptionally, within the context of Mons 2015,
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These artists are liberally nourished by nature, we
will go freely to nourish ourselves from their works
in order to create a garden of illusions, surprises
and colours.
And by not end the visit with lunch on the grass.
the tornado will pelt down during the weekend of
Pentecost, over a period of 4 days and in the four
sections of the municipality: Dour, Elouges, Blaugies and obviously Wihéries.
Un projet du Centre culturel et de la Commune de Dour en coproduction avec la Fondation Mons 2015.
IN THE CONTEXT OF KORTRIJK,VILLE PARTENAIRE
LYS 2015!
KORTRIJK EN DE LEIEVALLEI
GRATIS
WWW.KORTRIJK.BE
Kortrijk is nothing without the lilies! After nearly
20 years of extensive work, the river will finally be
returned to its inhabitants on current 2015. Kortrijk
and neighboring of the Valley, is celebrating the
comeback river joys during a summer festival on
the theme of ... water! Popular festivals, educational
and participatory projects, land art, exhibitions, bicycle trips, walks, picnics and water games ... A dense
and festive program that showcases new bridges
and infrastructure to recreate the link between the
inhabitants and their River. See you Saturday, May
23 for an exceptional launch evening: boat parade,
procession of giants, a wonderful goodbye to the
highest building of the city tour will punctuate the
official opening of a contemporary art course to be
crisscrossing Cycling across the Valley.
With musicians, dancers, artisans, street artists,
gamers and urban inhabitants of the region of
Kortrijk and Eurometropole, you will experience the
lilies!
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IN THE CONTEXT OF THUIN, VILLE PARTENAIRE
FLUIDE
ART IN CITY / WALKING TOUR THUIN
The city in all its diversity and with its direct contact
with the public is treated by artists as a creative
material in its own right. For Fluid, Thuin, noted
for its remarkable heritage, receives some twenty
Belgian and international contemporary artists. They
up-end it, scrutinise it and invite you to take a fresh
look at its history, language and culture. Private and
public spaces and iconic sites are used to display
works which will then remain in the city. As part of
Mons 2015, the route is thus designed for the long
term. Fluid instigates a profound examination of
contemporary urban reality.
IN THE CONTEXT OF WALLONIE PICARDE,
TERRITOIRE PARTENAIRE
LES 400 COUPS
M. Zo et les Facteurs d’Amour
A Antoing, Beloeil, Bernissart, Brugelette,
Brunehaut, Celles, Ellezelles, Chièvres, Comines,
Estaimpuis, Frasnes, Lessines, Leuze, Mouscron,
Pecq, Péruwelz, Rumes et Tournai.
FOISONNEMENT D’ÉVÉNEMENTS FREE ENTRANCES
WWW.LES400COUPS.EU
From 2 August to 13 September 2015, appointment everywhere in Wallonie picarde because of
an abundance of rallying events. Change of scene
guaranteed! Inhabitants and travellers, all become
spectators by embarking on the celestial universe
of M.Zo & his Factors of Love.
Images, instants, emotions, bells jingling, treks, les
400 Coups (400 Knocks) and their retinue of flying
objects reveal a territory seen from the sky, without
borders. Place of gentle madness, daring, emotion,
grace with the sky as theatre, mirror of an unusual
and surprising territory.
The 400 Coups is an epic poem imagined by M.Zo
and a band of accomplice artists, stitched together
for and with Wallons picards.
It is a great polymorphous, travelling, atypical project, to be experienced outdoors, in the places with
universal and symbolic character: a field, a forest,
an urban centre, a garden, a church, a chateau, a
waterway, a motorway, a portion of the sky…
A rocket, poetic and explorative, will be launched.
Bells, noble and warming ladies, will dance in the
sky, really! And when the diva of the “Concertos
De Public” comes to stroke them, the emotion will
accentuate her sense of happiness and open it to
the winds. The giants, totem men, dancing belfries
– we will support them – will dare to perform a
feat. 80km of “Great March” at their sides. Then,
we must put them to bed “Under the stars”, in the
ephemeral camping grounds. To catch our breath,
we will be offered “Celebrations in the Air” with a
layer of kites. In the “ Voice of the airs”, homage to
the world and the elements, hot-air balloons will
transport in lullabies, songs of love, sounds of a
comical nature for the pleasure of the cows, the
wheat, and the ears flabbergasted by so much
frivolity. A world premiere, an ode, a cherry on the
cake of the world. We also know that a forest will
take us in its arms with its “Fairground Fete”.
“The Beautiful Life” will plant its imaginary genealogical tree thanks to the immense and photographed traces of “crazies” perched in Wallonie
picarde.
Of course, Summer 2015, we will only have to grab
the bull by the horns. We will have a good time…in
Wallonie picarde!
Une coproduction de l’Agence culturelle de Wallonie picarde, des
Villes et communes de Wallonie picarde et de la Fondation Mons
2015.
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IN THE CONTEXT OF CHARLEROI, VILLE PARTENAIRE
SMOKE ON THE WATER
CHARLEROI-CENTRE VILLE
FREE ENTRANCE
Discover Charleroi as you have never seen it! Spectacles, digital art, cinema, electro evening, family
entertainment… The quays of Sambre will become
whirlpool of activities.
Over a weekend, time discovering Charleroi, land of
talent and city in complete revival. On the schedule,
a visual performance which transforms the quays
thanks to the video mapping of the talented Charleroi community Dirty Monitor, all directed by JeanMichel Van den Eeyden. A dive into the origins of
the Black Country!
Also celebrate with us the inauguration of the Quai
de l’image, new temple dedicated to the 7th Art at
Charleroi and then throw the anchor onto the edges
of the Sambre and the new “small square” for an
evening that will showcase the artists of Charleroi
with the concerts of Mochélan and Melanie De
Biasio.
Un événement de la Ville de Charleroi, organisé par L’Ancre en
partenariat avec le Quai de l’image, Dirty Monitor, le Rockerill et
Charleroi Centre Ville.
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IN THE CONTEXT OF MERBES-LE-CHÂTEAU,
COMMUNE PARTENAIRE
LE BEAU VÉLO DE RAVEL
FESTIVAL MERBES-LE-CHÂTEAU
Bruges has been organising cultural events in the
boroughs outside the city for times a years since
2010, the year Bruges was itself Cultural Capital of
Europe. The result as every time a popular festival.
The Uitwijken-caravan (a bar, stage, library and
workshop space) stops at different square during
a few days offering circus, theater, workshops,
breakfastconcerts and participative activities for
different audiences. There is no participation fee
for the absolutely free Uitwijken. It brings neigbou-
rhoods closer together and increases the access to
culture for everybody. The project Uitwijken won the
first ever ‘Prijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap voor
Lokaal Cultuurbeleid 2010-2011’, a recognition for
local cultural policy in Flanders.
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IN THE CONTEXT OF LIEGE,PARTNERCITY
IN THE CONTEXT OF FÊTES DE WALLONIE
JUST LIKE A BURNING CITY!
FABRICE MURGIA
FESTIVAL LIÈGE – PLACE SAINT-LAMBERT
FREE ENTRANCE
Belgian director and writer Fabrice Murgia has
won the Silver Lion of the Venice Biennial and was
invited by Festival d’Avignon 2014 and to other
international stages. He is part of the official programme of Mons 2015 with a new creation, but is
invited back to his roots in Liège, his native region.
In the heart of the city, he will invite us to a poetic
and cheerful homage to many artists from this
particularly creative region. Together with regional
artists he digs deep to find the soul and identity of
Liège. Popular celebrations, modern brassbands
and urban art meet ancestral traditions. Traditional
stringpuppets, Blancs-Moussis, handcraft and acrobats are revisited by regional talents. Fabrice Murgia is coordinating individual artists to tell the story
of the region in shapes, formats and languages of
our times. An invitation to party.
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Conception : Fabrice Murgia. Coordination arts visuels : Emilie Jonet.
Coordination milieu associatif: Geoffrey Piette. Crew musicale:
Dub-Timus Soundsystem.
Un projet de la Ville et la Province de Liège en coproduction avec la
Fondation Mons 2015. En partenariat avec la Compagnie Artara et
le Festival de Liège.
IN THE CONTEXT OF LA LOUVIÈRE, VILLE PARTENAIRE
DÉCROCHER LA LUNE
MISE EN SCÈNE DE LUC PETIT
FESTIVAL LA LOUVIÈRE
After five editions, the city of La Louvière is getting
ready to welcome a new episode of its urban opera
Décrocher la Lune. In the tradition of the popular
celebrations of the City, the artists of La Louviere,
current or future will celebrate together the return of
Sancho. Bringing together many cultural actors and citizens,
Décrocher la lune is a gigantic canvas, a living
fresco that illuminates the city and stirs the thousands of spectators. Circus, dance, theatre, music,
staggering settings: so many ingredients of a full
performance, peopled by giants and imaginary
beings, surprising effects…
Decrocher la lune, is also a story of love. The love
that La Louvière keeps alive with Sancho Gilles.
This intrepid giant who carries all the strength, all
the life, all the history of the people of La Louviere
within him. Their problems, certainly, but above
all their desires and hopes. Sancho Gilles is the
person who splits the crowd with the look of an
accomplice, who shares with the crowd its histories,
its friends, its appointments. He is the person who
takes on his ascent the ideals of all the people
of La Louviere while climbing the steeple of the
church. The person who takes down the heart of
La Louvière holding in his hand the inaccessible
heavenly body showing everyone that anything is
possible!
Within the context of Mons 2015, the project
assumes a European scope with the invitation
launched by La Louvière to his twin cities of Italy,
France and Poland. In Foligno, Atri, Roseto and
Aragona, in Kalisz, Saint-Maur des Fossés and
Eguisheim, the inhabitants will imagine the giant
that will represent their city at the celebration of La
Louviere. Seven new road companions who escort
Sancho on his trek to take down the moon…
Un projet de l’asbl Décrocher la Lune, de la Ville de La Louvière, du
Centre culturel régional du Centre, de l’Espace Dragone et de l’asbl
LL carré. En coproduction avec la Fondation Mons 2015. Avec le
soutien de la Province de Hainaut.
IN THE CONTEXT OF BRUGES, VILLE PARTENAIRE
UITWIJKEN
FESTIVAL BRUGES / BRUGGE
Bruges has been organising cultural events in the
boroughs outside the city for times a years since
2010, the year Bruges was itself Cultural Capital of
Europe. The result as every time a popular festival.
The Uitwijken-caravan (a bar, stage, library and
workshop space) stops at different square during
a few days offering circus, theater, workshops,
breakfastconcerts and participative activities for
different audiences. There is no participation fee
for the absolutely free Uitwijken. It brings neigbou-
rhoods closer together and increases the access to
culture for everybody. The project Uitwijken won the
first ever ‘Prijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap voor
Lokaal Cultuurbeleid 2010-2011’, a recognition for
local cultural policy in Flanders.
A project by Brugge Plus en the City of Bruges
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IN THE CONTEXT OF LILLE, VILLE PARTENAIRE
lille3000 / RENAISSANCE
SOIRÉE D’OUVERTURE LE 26 SEPTEMBRE 2015
FREE ENTRANCE
WWW.LILLE3000.EU
An openness to the world, artistic exchanges,
technology: Renaissance (Rebirth) is the brandnew version of Lille3000, with the ambitious aim
of demonstrating the vitality of today’s world. Like
the Renaissance of the 16th century that was
marked by a remarkable intellectual and artistic
revival, the early 21st century in which we live is a
turbulent time, but a new world is emerging. This
huge metamorphosis is coupled with intellectual
and artistic movements that serve to renew forms
of art and expression, and that are creating a new
relationship with the world. Renaissance will seek
to capture this promising impetus. An opening
parade, major exhibitions, urban metamorphoses,
shows, do-it-yourself, inflatables, lights, design,
food, debates, never-before-seen events… Artists
and experiences from all over the world are coming
to greet the people of Mons in this open and joyful
spirit. Be reborn with them!
IN THE CONTEXT OF BRUXELLES, VILLE PARTENAIRE
NUIT BLANCHE RENAISSANCE
BRUXELLES - QUARTIER SAINTE-CATHERINE
20:00 > 7:00
FREE ENTRANCE
PROGRAMMATION DISPONIBLE EN SEPTEMBRE 2015.
Artistic and popular cultural event, Nuit Blanche/
White Night invites everyone to take back the city
for one night. One night to get together, share the
unusual and contemporary creation in a warm
and festive environment, favourable for discovery
and astonishment. There are facilities, multimedia
projections, performances and interactive services
to savour until early morning!
Brought by the City of Brussels, NUIT BLANCHE
offers, the first Saturday of October every year, to
bring to life the public space and a dozen places of
the capital through contemporary artistic creation:
Cultural places, shop windows, school courses,
parking areas, churches, train stations, fountains,
small street, public places...
Concept which was started by the City of Paris in
2002, the Nuits Blanches have taken over a dozen
European cities (Madrid, Amsterdam, Riga,...). NUIT
BLANCHE Brussels has been bringing the streets
of the City to life since 2003 and has established
European renown over the years.
By offering a series of works closely linked with
the sites hosting them, NUIT BLANCHE offers a
new perspective on familiar places and also invites
the discovery of places usually closed or scarcely
accessible to the public.
The objective of the event is above all to provide
the opportunity to the general public to see Brussels in a different way and make it aware of new
artistic forms.
With the theme of “Renaissance”, Nuit Blanche
2015 will open, nationally, the last season of Mons
2015.
A project of the City of Brussels in co-production with the Mons
2015 Foundation. With the support of the Brussels-Capital Region,
the Ministry of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and the COCOF.
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DANIEL CORDOVA
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE POLE
“PERFORMING ARTS”
Daniel Cordova Zuniga was born in
Santiago de Chile in 1953, he studied at the
Brussels theater INSAS. He was from 1974
to 1985 active as a musician, composer and
producer of recordings with Latin music.
In addition to various forms of music, including
film music, he also made theaters and films.
In this way he is an important witness to the
political and cultural developments in Latin
America. He worked from 1986 to 1990 in the
Centre Culturel de la région de Charleroi, then,
from 1990 to 1999 he was production director
at the Centre Dramatique Hainuyer, where he
became director in 1990. In 2000 he created
the Festival au Carré in Mons.
In 2001 he became the artistic director
for Theater Manège.Mons.
Theater Manège Mons - Maubeuge is a
unique cross-border project in Europe,
including different infrastructures in Mons:
—— Théâtre Royal shows traditional entertainment,
in French called ‘variété’ and classical
music,
—— Théâtre le Manège focusses on the
contemporary creation of theater, music
and dance,
—— Le Carré des Arts hosts the summerfestival “Festival au Carré”,
—— La Maison Folie focuses on participation
and the developement of networks with
associations and citizens,
—— Auditorium Abel Dubois hosts the
younger crowds.
—— La Médiathèque completes the cultural
offer.
Within this global structure, the different entities work closely together for festivals, theater
production, music concerts, performances,
symphonic concerts or pop, rock concerts,
humor and variety shows.
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Mons has built a solid reputation in the field of performing arts over the last 30 years,
with amongst others two remarkable festivals: VIA Festival and Festival Au Carré.
2015 offers more than 250 artists, 68 institutions from 12 different countries,
36 creations, around 10 will be shown in world premiere in Mons.
On an international level, it is important to notice new work by Marco Matrinelli from Italy,
Lebanese-Canadian Wajdi Mouawad, Flemish Wim Vandekeybus and Joel Pommerat from
France.
Mons not only invites the world, but brings theater also to people’s houses with
proximity-projects such as Fait maison, Autour de la Table and Les infiltrés. Committed
actors will recite their favourite texts in the homes of locals, undertake first readings with
them or risk reading out quirky tests in schools.
While the world is looking in, Le Festin will present local talent in a Hainaut-style festival of
creativity, combining the resources of local artists with a popular and festive event.
Mons is ready to surprise you in 2015 inviting international artists, collaborating with the
strong generation of theater makers from the Federation Wallonia-Brussels and talent from
Flanders. The aim is to build bridges towards the future, to break down prejudices and to
break out of traditional approaches, to prove this Festival de Liège opens their
season in Mons.
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Coupé-Décalé
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La imaginación del futuro
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OPENING / THEATRE / DANCE
FESTIVAL
20:00
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THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE, MONS
DE LIÈGE
Liège Festival opens in Mons! Two performances from distant climes will immerse you in
their subversive waters. Dance: the Coupé-Décalé
group will be invading a theatre with their glitzy
hip-swaying. Theatre: the final weeks of Salvador
Allende’s life rewritten by a team of communication
specialists... Super-charged!
27.01.15
COUPÉ-DÉCALÉ
ROBYN ORLIN / JAMES CARLÈS
DANCE / SOUTH AFRICA THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE
20:00
11€
Choreographed by Robyn Orlin from South Africa and danced by James Carlès from Cameroon,
Coupé-Décalé leaves you all shook up with its humorous yet cruel analysis of Afro-European culture…
A double-sided performance, belligerent and playful, focused on the history of the SAPE (Société des
Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (The Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People,...).
Coproduction : APCA – Cie James Carlès, CDC Toulouse/Midi-Pyrénées, Centre national de la Dance, CNDC Angers, L’Astrada Marciac dans
le cadre du dispositif Résidence-association en Midi-Pyrénées. APCA - Cie James Carlès est soutenue par la DRAC Midi-Pyrénées, la Ville de
Toulouse, le Conseil régional Midi-Pyrénées et le Conseil général de la Haute-Garonne
Production déléguée : CDC Toulouse / Midi-Pyrénées
En collaboration avec le Festival de Liège
30.01.15
LA IMAGINACIÓN DEL FUTURO
LA RE-SENTIDA
THEATRE / CHILI THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE
20:00
11€
With La imaginación del futuro, history takes a knocking on stage. On 11 September 1973, Salvador Allende,
President of the Republic of Chile, delivered his final speech in public before being driven to suicide by the
Pinochet factions. Now try to imagine Allende being surrounded by a team of present-day “communication
specialists“.
Production La Re-sentida.
Coproduction Fundación Teatro a Mil (Chili) et Terni Festival (Italie). Avec le soutien de la Fondation BNP Paribas. Avec l’aide de l’Onda.
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THE CHILDREN’S TRAM
DE PHILIPPE BLASBAND
THEATRE / CREATION THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE
20:00
11€
Until now, nobody had spoken of those trams that
criss and cross our cities all through the night. The
invisible trams, driven by angels, with ghosts for
passengers. Ghosts of children that are gradually
being forgotten. The Children’s Tram is a nostalgic
comedy by Philippe Blasband, presented by a cast
of children… all over the age of 60.
Mise en scène de Philippe Blasband et Pierre Sartenaer.
Dans le cadre du projet 4 à 4. Production : le manège.mons
en co-production : Théâtre Varia - Bruxelles, Théâtre de Liège,
Théâtre de Namur et la Fondation Mons 2015.
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VIA
FESTIVAL
For more than 20 years the VIA International
Festival has been breaking down
artistic and geographical boundaries, in
Mons and Maubeuge. The festival has established
itself in Europe as a unique meetingplace where
performing arts and new technologies converge
and where international theatres, transboundary
professionals and audiences meet each other.
In 2015, New Cinemas will be the central
theme of the festival... Indeed, the 7th Art will appear
in and out everywhere, in all art forms and shapes.
Film will be a source of inspiration; new surfaces
will be covered by projections, in interdisciplinary
ways. It will open up new dimensions which the
arts are incorporating more and more into movie
techniques in their creative processes. In light of
this trend, the 2015 edition of VIA will offer twice
as many creations as usual – Children of Nowhere,
the second part of Ghost Road, the theatrical
road-movie of Fabrice Murgia; the dance-thriller,
Radioscopies, by Michèle Noiret; the slam/mapping
movie by Jean-Michel Van den Eeyden, Amnesia,
about digital memories and identity, a special
exhibition about this theme; and an amazing 3D
movies festival for the whole family.
THÉÂTRE le Manège
MAISON FOLIE
MUNDANEUM
MONS INTRA MUROS
THÉÂTRE ROYAL
MAUBEUGE
The European Capital of Culture is also the
opportunity for the Festival to take on some new
challenges, as for example with Café Europa, which
will be inaugurated during the Festival. We should
also mention the two digital and interactive shows
by the TPO company - Bleu and Babayaga -, planned
during the family weekend at the Maison Folie.
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RADIOSCOPIE
MICHÈLE NOIRET
THEATRE / DANCE / CINEMA / CREATION THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE
20:00
11€
The starting point was an interview. The Belgian author Conrad Detrez was invited to talk to Jacques Chancel on the radio programme Radioscopie and spoke about the French-speaking Belgian identity. This was
the cue for the choreographer Michèle Noiret to invent a choreographic thriller, Sommes-nous toujours de
quelque part ? in which we are whisked away into parallel universes, poised between theatre, dance and
cinema.
Production : Compagnie Michèle Noiret / Tandem asbl
Coproduction : la Fondation Mons 2015, le manège.mons, le Théâtre National (Bruxelles), le Théâtre National de Chaillot, le Théâtre Louis
Aragon, scène conventionnée Dance de Tremblay-en-France, (La compagnie Michèle Noiret est en résidence au Théâtre Louis Aragon,
scène conventionnée Dance de Tremblay-en-France, IN THE CONTEXT OF “Territoire(s) de la Dance 2015”, avec le soutien duDépartement
de la Seine-Saint-Denis) • (en cours).
Réalisé avec l’aide du Ministère de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service de la Dance. La Compagnie Michèle Noiret bénéficie
du soutien régulier de Wallonie-Bruxelles International. Michèle Noiret est artiste associée au Théâtre National de la Communauté française
de Belgique à Bruxelles, et membre de l’Académie royale de Belgique.
Scénario, mise en scène et chorégraphie Michèle Noiret, Créée avec et interprétée par Michèle Noiret, Isael Mata, Collaboration artistique
Dominique Duszynski, Assistanat Florence Augendre, Caméraman plateau Vincent Pinckaers
Composition musicale originale Todor Todoroff, Scénographie Sabine Theunissen, Lumières Xavier Lauwers, Régie vidéo Benoît Gillet,
Direction technique Christian Halkin
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AMNESIA
JEAN-MICHEL VAN DEN EEYDEN
THEATRE / CREATION MAISON FOLIE
20:00
11€
What happened to the figures of the Walloon identity? At a time when Belgian nationalism is a thing of
the past, what about the former hub of the Belgian economy? On the basis of the work by Jean Louvet,
Jean-Michel Van den Eeyden, the slam artist Mochélan and Dirty Monitor follow in the footsteps of the
ghosts of Wallonia in a surprising street movie.
Production L’Ancre (Charleroi)
Coproduction : le manège.mons, la Fondation Mons 2015 et le Théâtre National (Bruxelles)
Jean-Michel Van Den Eeyden sera également à la manoeuvre du projet Smoke on the water de Charleroi, ville partenaire
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CHILDREN OF NOWHERE
FABRICE MURGIA, CIE ARTARA & LOD MUZIEKTHEATER
THEATRE / CINÉMA / CREATION / EUROPEAN FIRST THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE
20:00
11€
Chacabuco was a mining village in Chile before being converted into a detention camp when Pinochet was
in power. It is now a ghost town in the middle of the desert. Between documentary and fiction, this road
movie is an investigation of the past, undertaken by Fabrice Murgia, the prodigal director of the Federation
Wallonia-Brussels.
Une production Cie Artara & LOD muziektheater. En coproduction avec le manège.mons et la Fondation Mons 2015 - Capitale européenne
de la Culture, le Théâtre National-Bruxelles, le Maillon Strasbourg, le Festival Perspectives - Saarbrücken, le TU-Nantes, le Théâtre
Jean-Vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine (en cours)
La Cie Artara est soutenue par Eubelius
Fabrice Murgia est artiste associé au Théâtre National-Bruxelles
Fabrice Murgia mettra aussi en scène le projet Like a Burning City de Liège, ville partenaire
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CAFE EUROPA
DIGITAL / PARTICIPATION / MULTIDISCIPLINARY
FREE ENTRANCE
Welcome to Café Europa, which combines a 21st century café, a training centre, a fab lab and a wall of
screens connected to ten European cities. Before its tour of Europe and return to the Mundaneum in 2015,
its prototype already got people talking in Mons. Maybe because it’s the perfect place to understand and
get to grips with the technological revolution that has turned the world upside down. With enthusiasm! If
the world is changing, it’s been a long time since we’ve had such a great opportunity to reinvent the way
we live together. At Café Europa, you perceive the value of do-it-yourself and open source, and the chance
to redefine our social ties together. Plus it’s cool, so give it a try!
Café Europa
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LES PASSIONS HUMAINES
GUY CASSIERS
THEATRE / CREATION THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE
20:00
11€
In the late 19th century, the “scandalous” sensuality
of Les Passions humaines by Jef Lambeaux
shocked Belgium’s royal family and the Church. The
King ended up censoring the impressive bas-relief
by the young sculptor. However, other factors were
involved: artistic rivalry with the flamboyant architect
Victor Horta, political skulduggery between
Belgium’s Catholic old guard and the Saudi
sheiks, plots and deceptions, devious art critics
and prostitutes. So this is what is also revealed
by the work being brought to light again thanks
to the restoration of the Horta Temple, where the
work was concealed in the Cinquantenaire Park in
Brussels. The leading Flemish director Guy Cassiers
has made it the main heroine of an authentic
Belgian docudrama! With a text by Erwin Mortier,
new technologies, the visual arts and theatre are
combined to produce an exceptional bilingual work.
Production Toneelhuis Coproduction Théâtre National (Bruxelles),
Fondation Mons 2015, le manège.mons, la ville d’Anvers.
IN THE CONTEXT OF GAND, VILLE PARTENAIRE
L’AUTRE HIVER
DENIS MARLEAU - STEPHANIE JASMIN - DOMINIQUE PAUWELS - NORMAND CHAURETTE - MUSICS NOUVELLES - LOD MUZIEKTHEATER
OPERA THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE
20:00
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Two travellers meet each other on the deck of a ship
that is trapped in ice. They introduce themselves:
Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine… but maybe I is
another? A 21st-century phantasmagorical opera
inspired by the explosive relationship between
the two poets, The Other Winter is a playful piece
performed in semi-darkness with characters
appearing on screen and in person. The world
premiere will be held in Mons.
Une production Mons 2015 Capitale européenne de la Culture,
le manège.mons et UBU compagnie de création. / En coproduction
avec deSingel Anvers, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg,
Le Parvis scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées, Maison de la Culture
d’Amiens, Ensemble MUSICs Nouvelles, Théâtre français du Centre
National des Arts Ottowa, Festival Printemps des Comédiens Montpellier et Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian. / Avec le soutien
de la Ville de Gand, le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec,
le Conseil des Arts du Canada. / Avec le soutien de Enoa. / Ce projet
a été financé avec le soutien de la Commission européenne.
Cette publication (communication) n’engage que son auteur et la
Commission n’est pas responsable de l’usage qui pourrait être fait
des informations qui y sont contenues.
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FESTIVAL
au carré
Outstanding year, outstanding festival. Early
this summer, preparations for the Festival au Carré
will be in full swing, a hugely popular event for
over 15 years that combines all different kinds of
celebration and creativity. And 2015 is set to be an
explosion of sensations! So many different forms
of artistic expression and so many occasions for
people to come together, and this time the Festival
au Carré will be celebrating the five senses.
The Festival has a tradition to give wildcards
to artists. We can already announce a first
list of creations: Mouawad’s Seven Tragedies
of Sophocles and the world premiere of Wim
Vandekeybus’s new project, a mysterious blend of
soul music and love between a performer and his
audience.
Elsewhere we have Marco Martinelli and his
150-strong choir with a lavish show that looks at
the theme of exile, ending in the gardens of the
Belfry. Then, be sure to make time for Autour de la
Table (Around the Table), an unusual project that
THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE
MAISON FOLIE
THÉÂTRE ROYAL
CARRÉ DES ARTS
JARDINS DU BEFFROI
MAISON LOSSEAU
takes you around the Mons region over the course
of the year. You are invited to attend readings
given by some of our great actors, to take place
in small groups around the table in unusual and
out-of-the-ordinary places - just like in those early
days of rehearsal. And, of course, there’ll be music,
with Arno’s poetic concert, as well as Bertrand
Cantat, Philippe Catherine, Franck Braley, Sylvie
Landuyt and many others. There’s something for
the little ones too with the family weekend at the
Maison Folie. On the menu there are workshops
focusing on the five senses, the return to the stage
of Peter de Bie (Cie Laika) with a show about taste,
and an off-the-wall one-man show for teenagers.
The Festival au Carré has gone super-size and is
offering an array of literature-showcasing poets,
after-parties at the Alhambra, the gastronomic
cabaret by students from Arts au Carré school of
arts, workshops for young and old alike, and all
different kinds of food for you to enjoy. Full of sight,
sounds, hearts and minds.
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LE C(H)ŒUR MONTOIS DE MARCO MARTINELLI
(RUMORE DI ACQUE SUIVI DE L’HÉRÉSIE DU BONHEUR)
THEATRE / CREATION / PARTICIPATIF THÉÂTRE ROYAL / JARDINS DU BEFFROI
FREE ENTRANCE
You may have caught sight of these 150 people last summer, proudly displaying their yellow T-shirts in
the city’s green spaces, shouting, singing, jumping, playing about… No, they are not unhinged!. Together
they form a choir that performs a unique and lavish show under the approving eye of the Italian director
Marco Martinelli. In the wake of New York, Avignon and Chicago, this giant of the theatre gets this unusual
group to bring to life the story of Rumore di Acque (Noises of the waters), complemented with the fantastic
music of the Fratelli Mancusco from Sicily. Somewhere on a Mediterranean island, a general has been sent
by the Ministry of the Inferno to make a census of the huge number of people left stranded on the edges
of beaches. A music and theatrical tribute to all those emigrating out of desperation. Spectators are then
invited to leave these «turbulent waters» to follow the choir as it makes its way to the Belfry Garden for
The Heresy of Happiness, where Mayakovsky’s luminous poems will ring out.
Une production Teatro delle Albe / Ravenna Teatro et le manège.mons en co-production avec La Fondation Mons 2015.
MARCO MARTINELLI
Marco Martinelli is among the co-founders
of the Teatro delle Albe in 1983 and received
several Ubu Prizes, Italy’s most prestigious
theatre prize assigned by critics. Martinelli
is a playwright and director for the company
(among his main works, Siamo asini o pedanti?,
I Polacchi, La Mano, detto Molière, L’isola di
Alcina, Leben, Pantani) and has also been the
artistic director of the Ravenna Teatro Center
since 1991. A published author and essayist,
Martinelli is the director of the non-school, a
high school theater project that reaches 400+
students a year.
IN THE CONTEXT OF WAJDI MOUAWAD, INVOLVED ARTIST AND OF NAMUR, VILLE PARTENAIRE
28.06.15
30.06.15
LE DERNIER JOUR DE SA VIE - 7 TRAGÉDIES DE SOPHOCLE
WAJDI MOUAWAD
THEATRE / MULTIDISCIPLINARY / CREATION THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE
25€
Deianira desperately awaits her unfaithful husband. In defiance of the State, Antigone wishes to bury her
brother whatever the cost. Electra avenges the murder of her father by killing her mother. Oedipus learns
he is his father’s murderer and his mother’s lover. Ajax is humiliated by madness. Philoctetes is wounded
for the good of the Greeks, and Oedipus at Colonus, blind and begging, approaches death. Seven tragedies of Sophocles, seven founding tales of Western culture. In 2011, the Lebanese-Quebecois writer and
director Wajdi Mouawad, the first supporting artist with Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture, embarked on a wild adventure: to show the oeuvre in its entirety in 2015. From ancient theatre to performance
theatre, from concerts to robotics, from cinema to a more sensory experience: we are all invited to a unique
theatrical epic, from dawn till dusk.
Un spectacle Au Carré de l’Hypoténuse-France, Abé Carré Cé Carré-Québec compagnies de création en coproduction avec Le Grand T
Théâtre de Loire-Atlantique, Mons 2015- Capitale Européenne de la Culture, le manège.mons, Théâtre Royal de Namur, Centre national
des Arts-Théâtre français Ottawa, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers Centre dramatique national, La Halle aux grains – scène nationale de Blois,
Célestins Théâtre de Lyon, Théâtres Départementaux de la Réunion, Comédie de Genève, Maison de la Culture de Bourges Scène nationale
et Festival d’Avignon, Festival d’Athènes dans le cadre du Réseau Kadmos avec le soutien du Théâtre 71 Scène nationale de Malakoff,
Théâtre du Nouveau Monde Montréal, Ministère de la Culture des Communications et de la Condition féminine du Québec, Conseil des
arts et des lettres du Québec, Ministère des Relations internationales du Québec, Fonds franco-quebecois de coopération décentralisée et
Service de Coopération et d’Action culturelle du Consulat général de France à Québec et la participation du Théâtre national de Toulouse
Midi-Pyrénées et Délégation générale du Québec à Paris.
Wajdi Mouawad est artiste associé au Grand T - Nantes Au Carré de l’Hypoténuse est une association loi 1901, conventionnée par le Ministère de la Culture et de la communication DRAC Pays de la Loire, soutenue par la Ville de Nantes. Abé Carré Cé Carré bénéficie du soutien
du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
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Le dernier jour de sa vie 7 tragédies de Sophocle
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CARTE BLANCHE À WIM VANDEKEYBUS
DANCE / CREATION THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE
11€
The theme of love forms the background to an exploration by the Flemish choreographer Wim Vandekebus
and his Ultima Vez company of the seductive, emotional and sensual relationship between the performance and the audience. With music by Mauro Pawloski, Elko Blijweert and Jeroen Stevens, the performers experiment with the world of soul music.
Production d’Ultima Vez, le manège.mons, la Fondation Mons 2015 (en cours)
10.07.15
ARNO
LITERATURE / MUSIC CARRÉ DES ARTS
The Festival au Carré and the Maison Losseau (the house of the lawyer Léon Losseau) will be arousing the
literary passions of several international multidisciplinary artists. And at their sides, for the space of one
evening, will be the Flemish raspy-voiced singer, Arno, right alongside the lyrical outpouring of Verlaine and
Verhaeren for a Mons-style «jam session», to produce an irresistibly exciting form of rock poetry.
IN THE CONTEXT OF WEEK-END EN FOLIE « FAMILLE «
07.15
AROMAGIC
THEATRE / YOUTH MAISON FOLIE
La Maison Folie will be at Le Festival au Carré for a weekend, for young and old alike. Titillate your taste
buds with Aromagic. The Laika company invites you onto the fictional set of a cookery show. A surprise for
the whole family!
Une production Laika en coproduction avec Les Grandes Tables De La Friche, Théâtre Massalia, Système Friche Théâtre, Marseille Provence, capitale européenne de la culture 2013, Cultura Nova, Heerlen et Le Volcan, scène nationale du Havre en collaboration avec le studio
IN THE CONTEXT OF WEEK-END EN FOLIE
07.15
TRAIT D’UNION
THEATRE / YOUTH / CREATION MAISON FOLIE
La Maison Folie will be at Le Festival au Carré for a weekend for all the family. With Common Component,
you can follow 15 year-old Simon’s journey: an iPhone, a friend, a secret love and… divorcing parents.
By sheer force of trying to be the common component in the middle of a war that is not his, the teenager
eats, bulges, and always manages to fill a void.
Trait d’Union a reçu à l’occasion des rencontres de théâtres jeunes publics de Huy le Prix de la Ministre de l’Enseignement secondaire et le
prix du Kiwanis à une jeune compagnie.
Création ASBL Trou de Ver, co-production le manège.mons et la Fondation Mons 2015, soutien du Foyer socio-culturel de Saint Ghislain.
Remerciements pour leur soutien : la Centre des arts Scéniques • Le Théâtre Varia • Le Théâtre Océan Nord • Le Théâtre Royal du Parc •
Geneviève Damas • Adrien Drumel • Hugo Messina • Benoit Verhaert • Laura • Les parents de Guillaume.
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Le Festin
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FESTIVAL / PARTY / GASTRONOMY / MUSIC
le festin
[Festival de créations
Mons-Borinage] + DIMANCHE TOQUÉ
A Hainaut-style festival of creativity,
combining the resources of local artists with a
popular and festive event. This is the new balancing
act of Le Festin, the outcome of close cooperation
between six Mons-Borinage structures. Numerous
artists from a whole range of disciplines work in
this pocket-handkerchief-sized Mons-Borinage
region, drawing their inspiration from the territory,
living there and better able than anyone else to
speak to the people of Mons in the language they
understand. Visitors will have the opportunity to
discover a luxurious profusion of artistic offerings,
including theatrical performances, a market
showcasing local produce, dance, music, reading,
sumptuous cuisine, cabaret, celebrations and, to
top it all off, a giant banquet– the sixth outing for
the Dimanche Toqué. A week-long experience of
the Mons-Borinage region. With the help of Baptiste
Lalieu (Saule), Axel Cornil, Hugues Charmart, Daniel
Decot, Hassiba Halabi, Giuseppe Lonobile, Muriel
Legrand and students from Arts au Carré under the
leadership of Guy Theunissen.
Production le 232U Théâtre de Chambre à Aulnoye-Aymeries, la
Fondation Mons 2015, le Centre Culturel de Boussu, le Centre
Culturel de Colfontaine, la Fabrique de Théâtre à la Bouverie, le
Centre Culturel de Frameries, le manège.mons et le foyer culturel
de Saint-Ghislain Avec le soutien du Phénix de Valenciennes, du
Tarmac (Paris), l’Alhambra/Mons 2015, Maison Losseau.
MAISON FOLIE
ALHAMBRA
MAISON LOSSEAU
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HUGUES CHAMART
PROJECT TO BE UNVEILED
After his training as an actor at the IAD,
Hugues Chamart first follows a part as interpreter. He can be seen in Sade-Charenton:
The tears of blood at the International Festival
of Turin “Big Torino) in 2000 (Italy); Calderon
of Pier Paolo Pasolini, at the Phoenix (Valenciennes) and at the Villette (Paris) in 2002.
It was in 2002 that he first put on the hat of
director with Passe-Temps of Jean-Francois
Leramusieau. In 2006, he directed La résistible ascension d’Arturo Ui (The Resistible
Rise of Arturo Ui) of Bertolt Brecht at the
Theatre Jardin-Passion in Namur, in co-production with the Théâtre royal of Namur.
Multiplying the project, he has also created
since 2008 a satirical sketch within the
context of the Mons Passé Présent (Festival
of Théâtre en Rue – Street Theatre Festival).
He has also collaborated in the “Rendez-vous
of the French Language” of the City of Mons
becoming its Artistic Director for the 2008
and 2009 events. He also started in 2013 the
Festival En bonne compagnie.
DANIEL DÉCOT
PROJECT TO BE UNVEILED
Daniel Decot studies Dramatic Art at
the Royal Conservatory of Mons. He plays
regularly in Belgium (Déclownestration of
Francis Monty by Geneviève Damas, De Profundis (Van Gogh / Artaud) by Eddy Mathieu,
etc.). He is seen regularly in Mons in the
Rendez-Vous du Livre as well as Mons-Passé-Présent. In France, he acts for the Théâtre
de Chambre (Un jeune home presse and En
manches de chemises (by Eugène Labiche),
Mariage, conversations privees, Dans ma
maison III: Brussels station by Christophe
Piret). He has directed several Belgian
authors, Portraits d’apres Fissures of Elisa
Brune, Je, Clytemnestre by Michel Tanner as
well as 3 pieces that he has written, Adem
(Chapelle des Brigittines) and also Warhol-Machine (Brussels and Mons).
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FROM THE CONCRETE
IN THE FEATHERS
Young author of Mons who graduated
from the Arts au Carré. He writes and works
with several young actors and directors
promoted by him Graduate of the INSAS
in dramatic writing in 2013. He has written
several texts, not published of which Magnifico (RRRRFestival) Thèbes la putain can be
discovered in Bellone in May 2014.
He assisted the director, Antoine Laubin.
HASSIBA HALABI
BUT THAT WAS BEFORE…
Since her award-winning graduation
from the Conservatory of Mons in 1997,
Hassiba Halabi has strung together scenic
experiences. Singer, musician (sax, percussion, guitar), author, composer and performer,
she has pursued her musical creation by
recently releasing her first album Maissara.
We can see her on the stage in among
other things Woyzeck directed by Giancarlo
Corelli (Rome), Arabelin by Jalia Baccar, La
surprise de l’amour, Les Troyennes d’Euripide
(nominated for the Theatre Prize in the role of
Andromaque), Kour by Franco Dragone, this
all-around artist received in 2003 the Theatre
Prize (Female Hope Category) with Hannah
and Hanna directed by John Rettalack at the
Theatre de Poche of Brussels.
GIUSEPPE LONOBILE
THE LOST
Belgian author, actor, director trained
at the Royal Conservatory of Mons, he is the
co-founder in 2000 with Céline Degreef and
Vincent Bresmal of the ATIS Théâtre. He is
the author of Vivarium, creation of the Atis
Théâtre, where he collaborates with Hassiba
Halabi, Vincent Bresmal, Céline Degreef and
played in the piece push-up, directed by
Jean-Michel Van Den Eyden where he worked in particular with Rosario Amadeo. In July
2014, he will perform a reading/performance
at the Festival au Carré in Mons: Loin de
Linden by Veronika Mabardi with Véronique
Dumont and Valérie Bauchau.
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CARTE BLANCHE A JOËL POMMERAT
THEATRE / CRÉATION / MUNDIAL FIRST THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE
20:00
11€
Risk, fear, fragility, elation… What is it that drives a
man to action? Which ideologies bring about the
overthrowing and seizing of power? Joël Pommerat
seeks the answers in the year 1789, the French
Revolution.
Describing himself as a ‘stage writer’, he does not
do his creating from home. He improvises his show
live, in his creative space, with his actors who all
have within them that human quality on which he
needs to draw. So no historical reconstructions,
myths or heroic figures, just a powerful inward look,
on that political adventure that Pommerat makes of
us, the actors.
Production : Compagnie Louis Brouillard
Coproduction : Théâtre national/Bruxelles, Odéon-Théâtre de
l’Europe, Le Manege.mons - Scène transfrontalière de création et
de diffusion, Mons 2015 - Capitale européenne de la Culture, Les
Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, MC2-Maison de la Culture
de Grenoble, La Filature-Scène nationale de Mulhouse, Espace
Malraux-Scène nationale de Chambéry, FACM-Festival théâtral du
Val d’Oise, L’apostrophe-Scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du
Val d’Oise, Automne en Normandie avec Le Volcan-Scène nationale
du Havre, Centre National des Arts-Ottawa, Bonlieu-Scène nationale d’Annecy, le Grand T-Nantes... (en cours)
Résidences de création : Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, CNCDC–
Châteauvallon, Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Conservatoire de Liège,
Théâtre national/Bruxelles
La Compagnie Louis Brouillard reçoit le soutien du Ministère de la
Culture/Drac Ile_de-France et de la Région Ile-de-France.
Joël Pommerat est associé au Théâtre national de Bruxelles et à
l’Odéon-Théâtre de L’Europe. Il fait partie de l’association d’artistes
de Nanterre-Amandiers.
UBUs
AXEL DE BOOSERÉ
& MAGGY JACOT / POP UP CIE
THEATRE / CREATION / PILSEN 2015 PARTNER
20:00
11€
Drawing inspiration from Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi,
UBUs reproduces a new fable on the theme of
finance and power. Egged on by his ambitious
wife, Ubu decides to assassinate the king. With the
help of Captain Bordure, Ubu takes over the throne,
from which he reigns without any common sense
whatsoever. In his bid to accumulate even more
wealth, he exterminates the nobles, magistrates
and financiers, before taking responsibility for
collecting the taxes. He is undone by his obsession
for «more and more». Our deregulated financial
sector is «Ubuesque», reigning over the world
without any common sense whatsoever. In response
to this apparently invincible economic craziness,
Axel de Booseré and Maggy Jacot have created
a biting, humorous and relevant production...
Picture the atmosphere of the stock exchange, the
absurd financial mechanisms brought face to face
with… fairground theatre. A Mons and Pilsen 2015
co-production.
Projet porté par Pilsen et Mons 2015, cette création belgo-tchèque,
entre marionnettes et déambulation du public, vous fera voyager
entre NASDAQ, Stock-Option et la fable d’Ubu Roi et vous laissera
surpris.
Une coproduction Fondation Mons 2015, Pilsen 2015, le manège.
mons, Théâtre de l’Eveil. (en cours)
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IN THE CONTEXT OF FRÉDÉRIC FLAMMAND, INVOLVED ARTIST
THE MIRROR CITY
FRÉDÉRIC FLAMAND
DANCE / PARTICIPATIF / INVOLVED ARTIST / CREATION
LOTTO MONS EXPO
What if all the knowledge of the world was gathered
into one place? Such was the utopia of the two
creators of the Mundaneum. For its reopening,
our supporting artist, the choreographer Frédéric
Flamand, is inspired by Google de Papier. Between
video and dance, The Mirror City calls our utopias
into question, taking place at the Lotto Mons Expo
with a hundred amateur dancers.
Production déléguée : Théâtre de Liège. Co-production : Charleroi
Dances, le manège.mons et la Fondation Mons 2015. (en cours)
En partenariat avec le Mundaneum.
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COLD BLOOD
MICHÈLE ANNE DE MEY,
JACO VAN DORMAEL
ET LE COLLECTIF KISS AND CRY
Back in 2011, the world of theatre was in a state of
shock. A brilliant makeshift affair between cinema,
dance, music and theatre, Kiss and Cry was an
immediate success at home and abroad in the wake
of its inception in Mons. The film director Jaco Van
Dormael (Toto le héros), the choreographer Michèle
Anne De Mey (Sinfonia Eroïca) and their team took
on the world with a story told inside and out…
In Kiss and Cry, Gisèle encounters a man in a train.
Their hands touch and then search for each other
frantically. In 2015, the entire team will be returning
to the first performance venue, in Mons, not to
embark upon a follow-up or an epilogue but to set
off on a new lyrical adventure combining nanodance and cinema. Fingers running over doll-like
sets, a camera dances, a voice tells a story. A dream
experience for old and young alike.
Coproduction de Charleroi-Dances, Astragale/cie Michèle Anne
De Mey le manège.mons, la Fondation Mons 2015
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FRÉDÉRIC FLAMAND
Frédéric Flamand founded the “Plan K” dance company
in 1973. From 1979 it occupied a former sugar refinery located
in Molenbeek, Brussels. Always a lover of multidisciplinary art,
in that location he hosted artists such as Bob Wilson, William
Burroughs, Steve Lacy, Decouflé, Marie Chouinard, Joy Division
and the Eurythmics.
Appointed head of the former Royal Ballet of Wallonia in 1991,
Frédéric Flamand renamed the company Charleroi / Danses.
It became the first contemporary dance company in Belgium.
Flamand made the institution well known not only in Belgium
but also internationally. On 28 February 1998, Maurice Bejart
was condemned by the Belgian courts for his choreography of
Presbytery which plagiarized an extract from Frédéric Flamand’s
The Fall of Icarus. In it we see a winged dancer cross the stage
with video monitors as shoes.
In September 2004, Frédéric Flamand was appointed general
manager of the Ballet National de Marseille and the Marseille
National School of Dance. Since 2005 he has been assisted by
Eric Vu-An. He was also appointed the artistic director of the
International Dance Festival of Cannes for the period 2011-2013
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our partners
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DANCE BIENNALE 2015
EUROPEAN CROSSROADS
CHARLEROI DANSES
CHARLEROI - MONS - BRUXELLES
FULL PROGRAMME AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2015.
WWW.CHARLEROI-DANSES.BE
A project proposed by Charleroi Danses, Centre
chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
in coproduction with the Mons 2015 Foundation.
Major event of the Belgian Autumn cultural season,
the biennale proposed by Charleroi Danses will
confirm its international and European positioning
in 2015. Thirty events – most of them creations –
will give its rhythm to this special edition named
“European Crossroads”, based in Charleroi, but
that will develop close links not only with Paris,
Budapest and Amsterdam but mainly with Mons,
European Capital of Culture 2015.
The central theme is youth and artistic renewal. The
heart of the project focuses on new choreographic
visions, renewal of audiences, script innovation
and participative processes. Michèle Anne De Mey,
Thierry De Mey and Pierre Droulers – the three
artists associated with Charleroi Danses - will be
the catalysts of these themes in the productions.
The Dance Biennale 2015 will offer an explosive
programme open to the multifaceted dance
creations from Belgium and abroad.
Un projet de Charleroi Danses, Centre chorégraphique de la
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles en coproduction avec la Fondation
Mons 2015.
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RESIDENCE REHEARSALS
FROM OCTOBER 2014
PUBLIC SHOWS DURING
THE WHOLE YEAR 2015
(PROGRAMME IN DEVELOPMENT)
FINAL SHOW ON 11.12.2015 AT 8:00
–
WWW.LAFABRIQUE.BE
IN THE CONTEXT OF SAINT-GHISLAIN, VILLE PARTENAIRE
WORLD FOLKLORE FESTIVAL
HALL DE TERTRE
WWW.FESTIFOLK.BE
9/15€
Having been held more than 30 times, the World
Folklore Festival of the City of Saint-Ghislain has
become a key event in the calendar for lovers of
folk music and dance over the years.
Ten days of discovery for all audiences with a rich
programme showcasing the best groups on the
international folk scene. Europe will be very much
in evidence in 2015’s festival, with a particular focus
on the Czech Republic, which also has a European
Capital of Culture: Pilsen 2015.
With the slogan ‘The world is my tribe’, the
Festival will host the best groups from many
European countries, with folklore and culinary
and craft traditions on show. On the sidelines
of the performances, a ‘Bal des Nations’, dance
workshops and festive entertainment are on offer,
creating an encounter between artists, local people
and a broad public.
Organised by Festival Mondial de Folklore in partnership with the
City of Saint-Ghislain and its Tourist Information Centre, co-produced
by the Mons 2015 Foundation. With the support of the Walloon
Region and the Province of Hainaut.
SIDE STEP
LA FABRIQUE DE THÉÂTRE
SERVICE PROVINCIAL DES ARTS DE LA SCÈNE /
PROVINCE DE HAINAUT
ACCESS IS FREE UPON RESERVATION.
Stop! Let’s think! We are told: Progress is Happiness, move a pace forward. Moving forward is
progress indeed ….however it is never happiness.
So why not rather set a step aside? Why not try
something else? By taking a side step we would
see what we usually never see. (Quote from the
film “Year 01” by Jacques Doillon).
Residence rehearsals, workshops and performances
will be proposed by Sidestep, a living laboratory
of artistic research and experiments featuring the
impact of digital technologies on society and culture.
All along 2015, this multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary platform will analyse Where technology
meets culture along two visions: reality and illusion.
On the one hand the deconstruction and understanding of technologies, and on the other the
“plug and play”, the industrial leisure.
Illusion is the world as it is presented to us.
Reality is the world of the “alarm clocks dismounted” by the hackers, and equally revealed
to Neo by Morpheus in Matrix.
This is a coproduction by La Fabrique de théâtre – SPAS, Province
of Hainaut and the Mons 2015 Foundation.
Un pas de côté
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The musical programme of Mons 2015 is deeply rooted in the history of the city and
its surrounding areas’s.
Rolandus Lassus is undoubtedly to biggest name from the musical programme and this
‘Montois’ comes back to Mons 2015 in many concerts, concepts and celebrations.
This innovative composer from the XVIth century was a star all around Europe, from Italy
through the music he wrote to the poetry of Petrarca and in Bayern (Germany) where he
was engaged as composer of the court and where he died. This Franco-Flemish composer
of the late Renaissance is today considered to be the chief representative of the mature
polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish school, and one of the three most famous and
influential musicians in Europe at the end of the 16th century
An amazing string of choirs will honour Lassus during different projects in “a week with
Lassus”: from a children’s choir to a choir of around 700 fans, from classical to contemporary musicians. Exhibitions, publications and lectures will help the larger public and specialists to rediscover the man and his music.
Bring together different musical worlds is a conscious choice of Mons 2015. The two concerthalls mix classical to pop concerts, and all different music styles.
The Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia plays a crazy jam session for the opening
party in Alhambra under the impressive mural of Bonom (Vincent Glowinsky). During 2015
Alhambra will host many rockconcerts and electro-parties.
A brand new music center will open its door in spring: Arsonic. Find out more with the first
concertlist below in this pressfile.
Notice also the considerable offer of family-activities in the musical programme:
workshops, concerts and musical theater.
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Simulation Arsonic
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MUSIC / INAUGURATION
arsonic
At the end of Rue de Nimy is a place of creativity
and dreams entirely dedicated to sound, nicknamed
‘La Maison de l’Écoute’ (The House of Listening).
Architects Holoffe and Vermeersch, along with
the acoustician Eckhard Kahle, are developing
an original idea from musician Jean-Paul Dessy.
ARSONIC offers you a creative respite from the
frenzy of everyday life; a peaceful haven where
you can calmly catch your breath. As well as a
280-seat auditorium, you will find the Passage des
Rumeurs (Murmuring Passage) with exhibitions
and installations devoted to sound, a melodious
Chapelle du Silence (Chapel of Silence), rooms
of sounds and wonder, rehearsal rooms, a control
room, dressing rooms and permanent offices… It’s
not hard to be caught up in the spirit of the building
soon to house the teams of the Manège.Mons. So,
welcome to ARSONIC! But Sshh, we’re keeping it a
secret for now…
Hereby we announce already following elements of
the programme. Steve Reich in collaboration with
YOUTHs Musicales and Quatuor MP4.
The European Capitals of Culture exchange
their musical inspiration from the initiative of the
Ensemble MUSICs Nouvelles: the theme of Lucifer,
but also concert evenings together with Wroclaw in
2016 and Pilsen in 2015.
Arsonic is also immersed in the Lassus week and
will also count as the theme for biennial international
competition ['tactus].
MONS INTRAMUROS
—
10:00 > 18:00 OPEN DOORS
IN COLLABORATION WITH PÔLE MUSEAL
MONS
—
02.04.15 – 20:00 GALA NIGHT BY INVITATION
JEAN-PAUL DESSY
Jean-Paul Dessy has been managing
the ensemble MUSICs Nouvelles since 1997.
As a composer and violoncellist, his musical
research digs deep in the spiritual side of
music: the concert as liturgy, instrumental
practice as meditation, composition as a
place of prophecy, the sound as revelation.
Arsonic materializes in 2015 his biggest
dream of a space entirely dedicated to
sound: a concert hall and an exhibitions
space, a place of discovery and emotional
sounds, a House for Listening.
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LE P’TIT BAL
MUSIC / YOUTH ARSONIC
14.00 / 16.00
At Le P'tit Bal, children lead the dance, instructing
their parents in a frenzy of chassés and diabolical
tarantellas. Clarinet, accordion, bouzouki, singing,
bass and drums beat the rhythm of traditional
Romanian, Hungarian and Yiddish dances. With
infectious humour, the dancer Nathalie details
step by step all the secrets of a perfect Eastern
European knees-up. Enrol for the workshops on
Sunday 5 April 2015 during the open days marking
the opening of ARSONIC.
PASSAGE DE MÉMOIRE :
« DIFFERENT TRAINS » DE STEVE REICH
MUSIC / YOUTH ARSONIC
13:30 / 20:00
The composer Steve Reich remembers how, in
1940, he was carried back and forth in trains
between his divorced parents. What the young
American did not know was that in Europe, at the
same time, thousands of deportees were crammed
into railway wagons taking them to concentration
camps. In 1988, he wrote Different trains for
string quartet and tape, as a powerful act of
remembrance. Through this concert, the YOUTHs
Musicales and the MP4 Quartet encourage us to
think about the tragedies that constantly hit the
headlines.
PETIT MARS CHANGEANT
DANCE / MUSIC / YOUTH ARSONIC
20.05.15 - 16:00 / 18:00
21.05.15 - 10:00
“Light like the wind in May, nose in the air, mouth
wide open, an unexpected colour, a rustle on the
side, the little fickle March has begun…” What could
be more natural? A summer butterfly with blue-violet
glints which flutters near the rivers at the heart of
the wood. Nathalie Cornille wakes it up gently by
dancing around the little children comfortably sat
on the soft carpet. The spectators on stage are
between one day and three years old, accompanied
by their parents. They discover a show in which they
are participating. Above, below, next door, close up,
you just need to raise your hand to touch a butterfly.
Voices tenderly whisper, breaths, sounds, birdsong,
light and lightness: the poetry is shared on a daily
basis with simple and attentive gestures.
Petit Mars Changeant
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OPERATIC ACTIONS :
LUCIFER, ÉCLAIRER SANS AVEUGLER
SOUNDS OF EUROPEAN CAPITALS AARHUS 2017
MUSIC ARSONIC - 20:00
The European capitals of culture exchange and
share their musical inspiration at the initiative of the
Musiques Nouvelles ensemble. Direction Aarhus!
Operatic Actions questions chamber opera with the
Danish association AUT, the Lithuanian artists of
Operomanija and the Belgian ensemble Musiques
Nouvelles. Seven European composers rewrite an
episode from the fall of Lucifer. These native digital
citizens, all children of multimedia, approach one of
the most outrageous performing arts of our musical
history (a world that is naturally singing!). Computers,
iPods, iPads, iPhones, virtual social networks and
electronic gadgets of our fragmented lives can they,
paradoxically, shed light on our artifices? Composers,
musicians and singers take up the challenge on
stage.
CONTEMPORARY SOUNDS OF POLAND
SOUNDS OF EUROPEAN CAPITALS WROCLAW 2016
MUSIC ARSONIC
20:00
share their musical inspiration at the initiative of
the Musiques Nouvelles ensemble. In June 2015
Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej led by Szymon Bywalec
presents an exclusively Polish programme at
ARSONIC, while in 2016 Musiques Nouvelles
will present composers of the Wallonia-Brussels
Federation in Wroclaw. The public of Mons 2015
will once again enjoy the warm spirituality of
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki (Kleines Requiem für eine
Polka op.66) a regular in our concert halls, and
will be able to discover the sonorous strangeness
of the universes of Pawel Mykietyn (3 for 13), the
tremendous energy of Agata Zubel (Not I, on a text
by Samuel Beckett) and the evocative power of
the young Przemyslaw Scheller (for a creation with
electronics).
SOUNDS OF EUROPEAN CAPITALS :
PILSEN 2015
CZECH MADE / BERG ORCHESTRA
DIRECTION PETER VRÁBEL
MUSIC ARSONIC
16:00
share their musical inspiration at the initiative of the
Musiques Nouvelles ensemble. ARSONIC, Mons’
new concert hall welcomes the most dynamic
contemporary ensemble of the Czech music scene.
Since 1995, the Berg Orchestra, founded and led
by Slovak conductor Peter Vrábel, dares to bring out
a traditional programme, to meet a wider audience
unfamiliar with the spaces reserved for classical
concerts. From strange experiences and inventive
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projects at the crossroads with performing arts,
these audacious musicians will be playing the
most outstanding works of contemporary Czech.
František Chaloupka, Slavomir Horinka, Petr Wajsar,
Michal Nejtek and Ondrej Adamek… these young
composers speak to us of rhythm, spirit and passion.
In short, us!
[‘TACTUS], FORUM INTERNATIONAL
DES JEUNES COMPOSITEURS
MUSIC ARSONIC
20:00
Mons native Orlando di Lasso inspires our
contemporaries four centuries after his
disappearance. The biennial international competition
[‘tactus] begun by Gilles Ledure in 2003, offers
young international composers the chance to write
a piece from a motet selected from the Prince
of Musicians. The seven chamber music finalists
welcomed by families in Mons on 23 November
2015, will begin a residency in the ARSONIC with the
Musiques Nouvelles ensemble conducted by JeanPaul Dessy, in order to rehearse up until the concert
of creation on 27 November. [‘tactus] 2015 crowns a
partnership between Flagey and Mons 2015, since
the first session of this two part competition will take
place in Studio 4 in Brussels, where, in September,
the Brussels Philharmonic and Michel Tabachnik will
create symphonic pieces from the entire world.
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CONCERTS / INSTALLATIONS
A WEEK
OF ORLANDO
DI LASSO
1531, Mons – 1594, Munich
The star of Renaissance is back in Mons
7800 amateur singers on the steps of St
Waudru! What better way to celebrate Orlandus
Lassus (1531-1594), the most famous musician in
Mons history? A sublime voice and an unparalleled
polyphonic composer, a writer of drinking songs
and occasional spy, Lasso and his cronies
Ockeghem and Josquin des Prés were responsible
for making the Belgian province of Hainaut the
epicentre of the musical Renaissance. They knew
how to embody faith in a chorus of voices rising
towards heaven. Nowadays we would tend to
talk more in terms of contemplation, and it is this
mystique that the Musiques Nouvelles ensemble
will be offering in all its forms between 4 and 11
October, from the vocal purity of Vox Luminis to
the unlikely cross-over of Sonic Lassus; from that
‘Grande Clameur’ opening to improvs in city centre
cafés. Add to that symposiums and book and
record launches and you will understand what we
mean when we say Lasso has returned!
From 4 to 11 October 2015,
artists and researchers pay homage to the
Renaissance period’s ‘Prince of Musicians’,
famous for his daring expressiveness and
his polyphonic vocals. A native of Mons,
with great skill Orlando di Lasso blended
the sacred with the secular throughout
the whole of his unconventional European
career.
The poet Ronsard refers to him as ‘the
greater-than-divine Orlando’, while Galileo’s father
calls him ‘il mirabile Lassus’ (the wonderful Lasso);
and the entire Renaissance acclaimed him as
the ‘Prince of Musicians’. A handsome dandy of
foreign courts, a double agent and an adventurer,
Lasso was first and foremost a composer who
was daringly modern for his time. He gave the
madrigal its lively rhythm and simple structure in
order to bring out perfectly the slightest nuance
in the texts that he chose: his musical settings
of poems by Marot, Rabelais or Ronsard reveal a
deep sensitivity. Whimsical and cheerful, he nimbly
throws together drinking songs or libertine couplets,
but can also move the listener with the lucid
ARSONIC SAINTE-WAUDRU ÉGLISE SAINT-NICOLAS
CHAPELLE DES FUCAM ATELIER DES FUCAM
and melancholic grace of his polyphonic sound,
nourished by his strong religious temperament. His
multi-faceted personality suits the spirit of this age
of change, in which humanists, reformers, explorers
and scientists were overturning and flouting
prohibitions, under the threat of the Inquisition. By
the end of his life, having served as the choirmaster
of the Dukes of Bavaria for over 30 years, Lasso
had written some 2,300 vocal pieces, of which
1,572 were religious and 765 non-religious. So
it was only natural that Mons 2015 should pay
homage.
CUBICULUM MUSICAE LASSUS
INSTALL ATION / MUSIC COUR DES ANCIENS ABATTOIRS
So what is it? Quite simply it is a square, hermetically
sealed music chamber in which you can travel back
in time. It’ll take you on a quick trip back to the 16th
century to experience Lasso in both music and
images. All aboard for the Renaissance with this
extraordinary machine from the CESR (Centre for
Renaissance Studies) in Tours.
LE HAINAUT ET LA MUSIQUE
DE LA RENAISSANCE
PUBLICATION 06.15
ED. BRÉPOLS, COLL. ÉPITOME MUSICAL – TURNHOUT
The most illustrious musicians of the Renaissance
period were from Hainaut, and foreign courts vied
shamelessly for their talent. From popular traditions
to the practices of the musical savants, this
beautifully illustrated book is a true testament to our
vibrant heritage.
LE PLUS QUE DIVIN ORLANDE
WORKSHOP ARSONIC
10.07.15 - 9:00 > 18:00
Organised by the Brussels Royal Academy of Fine
Arts and the Bavarian Academy, this international
symposium in both French and English coincides
with the publication of the complete works of Lasso.
Perfect for enlightened amateurs. Registration with
the Royal Academy required.
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LA GRANDE CLAMEUR
MUSIC PARVIS DE SAINTE-WAUDRU
19:30
From the heights of Mons a loud and joyous cry will ring out, composed and directed by Jean-Paul Dessy
in homage to Orlando di Lasso of Mons. 700 new and seasoned singers will perform to the sound of
accordions in front of the church. A joyous ode to the Renaissance!
04.10.15
SONIC LASSUS
ENSEMBLE MUSICS NOUVELLES, DIRECTION JEAN-PAUL DESSY
MUSIC COLLÉGIALE SAINTE-WAUDRU
20:30
Mons native Lasso, a whimsical and cheerful polyphonist with a daring musical repertoire, expressed his
profound faith with the ardour of a man in love. From vocal music to electro sounds, numerous artists are
set to celebrate the sensitive quality of his religious and non-religious music.
05.10.15
> 25.10.15
LA MUSIC EN HAINAUT AUX XVIIE ET XVIIIE SIÈCLES
COLLOQUE / EXPOSITION / PUBLICATION / CONCERTS ATELIERS ET CHAPELLE DES FUCAM
05.10 > 06.10.15 - 10:00 > 17:30 - COLLOQUE SUR INSCRIPTION
05.10 > 25.10.15 - EXPOSITION
05.10.15 – PARUTION DE HAINAUT, TERRE MUSICALE (XVII E-XVIII E SIÈCLES), ED. BRÉPOLS, COLL. ÉPITOME MUSICAL – TURNHOUT
05.10.15 – UN CONCERT BOURGEOIS – 12:15 – CHAPELLE DES FUCAM
06.10.15 – SPLENDEURS D’UN RÉPERTOIRE OUBLIÉ – 20:00 – ÉGLISE SAINT-NICOLAS EN HAVRÉ
Ateliers des FUCaM - FUCaM (Catholic University Faculties of Mons) workshops – 10am to 5:30pm –
registration required
Musicologists with UCL and the FNRS (Fund for Scientific Research) recall the energy of Hainaut baroque
music at the heart of the European scene: a lavish exhibition and two days of informative meetings,
concerts and publications.
Une coproduction Fondation Mons 2015 – UCL (Cermus et UCL Mons) – FNRS – Festival Harmonia Sacra
05.10.15
UN CONCERT BOURGEOIS
ENSEMBLE PHILIDOR & MIRA GLODEANU
MUSIC
12:15
CHAPELLE DES FUCAM
Using instruments from the period, the enthusiastic and generous-spirited musicians of the Ensemble
PhilidOr will bring back to life the chamber repertoire of the leading Hainaut composers of the 18th
century. An original approach in the FUCaM programme.
06.10.15
SPLENDEURS D’UN RÉPERTOIRE OUBLIÉ
ENSEMBLES HARMONIA SACRA ET PHILIDOR
MUSIC
20:00
ÉGLISE SAINT-NICOLAS
Possessions espagnoles ou françaises, lieu d’exil anglais ou de villégiature allemande et italienne, les
terres hennuyères des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles offrent de belles et riches pages musicales pour voix et
instruments d’époque.
07.10.15
LASSUS, PRINCE DES MUSICIENS : DE SUSANNE A MARIE
CONCERT MUSICAL ET INSTRUMENTAL
CHŒUR DE CHAMBRE DE NAMUR ET CAPELLA MEDITERRANEA, DIRECTION LEONARDO
GARCIA-ALARCÓN
MUSIC
20:00
ÉGLISE SAINT-NICOLAS
While chapel master at the Court of Bavaria, Mons native Lasso wrote inspiring masses drawing on secular
sources of inspiration and poignant motets of unmatched instrumental and vocal splendour.
IN THE CONTEXT OF MALINES, VILLE PARTENAIRE
08.10.15
ALCHIMIE ET METAMORPHOSES
JURGEN DE BRUYN, LUTHISTE
MUSIC ARSONIC, CHAPELLE DU SILENCE
12:15
21st-century minstrel Jurgen De Bruyn distils some of Lasso’s vocal masterpieces including French
chansons, madrigals and psalms, all adapted for the lute while Lasso was still alive due to the popularity of
his work. Charming and spell-binding.
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LASSUS ENFANT : CHOEUR DES JEUNES DE LA MONNAIE
CHŒUR DES JEUNES DE LA MONNAIE, DIRECTION ALDO PLATTEAU (ORGUE)
MUSIC ÉGLISE SAINT-NICOLAS
13:30 / 18:00
Orlando di Lasso was a soprano at St Nicholas when his exceptional voice caught the attention of Ferrante
Gonzaga, who eventually took him to Sicily. With this in mind, Aldo Platteau has created a piece designed
especially for the voices of children, organ and electronics, as a tribute to the young prodigy of the 16th
century.
09.10.15
LASSUS L’EUROPÉEN
VOX LUMINIS, DIRECTION LIONEL MEUNIER
MUSIC / CD ÉGLISE SAINT-NICOLAS
20:00
Vox Luminis offre le dernier opus d’une anthologie de 5 CD consacrée au portrait musical biographique
inédit du « Divin Orlande ». Les précédents volumes reviennent à Ludus Modalis (FR), Singer Pur (DE),
Egidius (NL) et Odhecaton (IT).
To coincide with the release of the 5th and final instalment of the musical biography of Lasso, by label
Musique en Wallonie, Vox Luminis pay homage to the Prince of Musicians, who set the entire European
music scene alight. Some flashes of brilliance from an international career.
10.10.15
VIVA ORLANDO !
LES SONADORI
MUSIC MONS INTRAMUROS
From bass to soprano, the six Renaissance violins of the Sonadori in procession will stop off in patrimonial
places in Mons is a homage to both the secular and sacred works of Lasso.
10.10.15
VIVA ORLANDO !
BARATHON LASSUS
ENSEMBLE ZEFIRO TORNA, JURGEN DE BRUYN, CHŒUR AMATEUR MEZZA VOCE, ALDO PLATTEAU
PARTY / MUSIC MONS INTRAMUROS
14:00 > 18:00
Party, singing, sharing in the bars of Mechelen tracing back Orlando Di Lassi: a musical and poetic citytour,
funny and entertaining, unique and impressive
17.03.15
ECO / EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY ORCHESTRA
MUSIC / CRÉATION THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE
20:00
A symphonic tiger: The European Contemporary Orchestra combines the adaptability of a chamber
ensemble and the power of a philharmonic orchestra! With three singers, a DJ and a sound engineer:
seeking out new experiences at the forefront of the very latest technologies. To this day, ECO is the
only European orchestra that is entirely dedicated to contemporary creation. Since 2011, its thirty-three
musicians, spurred on by conductors Raoul Lay (Télémaque/Marseille) and Jean-Paul Dessy (Musiques
Nouvelles/Mons), add their dynamism to the composers’ imagination and welcome the young Romanian
(Icon Arts Academy) and Italian (AFAM) instrumentalists. On the programme: three creations by Jean-Luc
Fafchamps, Bernard Cavanna and Ivan Fedele, amongst the pieces created in 2012 by Benoît Chantry, Karl
Fiorini and François Narboni.
11.10.15
LES VÊPRES DE SAINTE-WAUDRU
AVEC LES CHŒURS FÉMININS NOTRE-DAME AU SABLON & STELLA MATUTINA
DIRECTION ALICIA SCARCEZ & ERIK TREKELS - ARNAUD VAN DE CAUTER (ORGUE RENAISSANCE)
MUSIC SAINTE-WAUDRU
17:00
For this unique and stirring event featuring costumes from the time, the office of the vespers will be
celebrated in the way that the canonesses used to dedicate it to Waudru, the patron saint of Mons.
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SHANTI ! SHANTI !
MUSIC / YOUTH FLAGEY (BRUXELLES)
21.03.15 - 20:15
MUSIC / YOUTH THÉÂTRE ROYAL MONS
22.03.15 - 16:00
Aqua, Wasser, eau, su, maim, voda, dlo, gui, djour,
agua… water in all languages is a source of life and
fertility. Can we live on fresh air (and water)? This is
one of the questions that the Festival of Flanders
has put to the Brussels choir Shanti! Shanti! and to
the Jeunesses Musicales of Mons-Borinage which
bring together around forty children of all nationalities to sing living water, love and passion. Two musicians join forces with the children to write, dream
up and put on this heart-felt choral show which
encourages creativity and sharing. The Liège composer Véronique Delmelle calls on three instrumentalists from the Musiques Nouvelles ensemble and
the Iranian composer Osama Abdulrasol, virtuoso of
the qanûn (a cross between a harp and a zither), is
accompanied by a world music trio.
EL SISTEMONS
MUSIC THÉÂTRE ROYAL
24.04.15 - 13:30 25.04.15 - 11:00
There is music under the cobblestones! In our streets
and dreams, between our walls, it opens people’s
hearts and leads to vocations. El Sistemons is inspired
by the extraordinary dynamism of El Sistema, “Social
action for music” founded in 1975 in Venezuela by
Jose-Antonio Abreu. This generous musician was
an idealistic economist: his national network of
orchestras has saved thousands of children from
deprived backgrounds from the favelas. He is always
fighting against failure, exclusion and violence by
increasing the value of the taste of life and personal
pride. The challenge is taken up on a small scale and
over two years by the Musiques Nouvelles ensemble
and the ReMuA association amongst the primary
school pupils of the Athénée Royal Bervoets and the
École du Sacré Cœur in Mons. As they are taught to
play the instruments that have been lent to them, they
will create a piece by the British composer Nick Hayes
at the end of a great apprenticeship.
DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIN
(FESTIVAL DE CRÉATIONS MONS-BORINAGE)
LE FESTIN DE SAULE
MUSIC MAISON FOLIE / ALHAMBRA / THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE M AISON LOSSEAU
As part of Le Festin Festival in after, 4 night
programming @Alhambra managed by artist Saule
and his friends.
Baptiste Lalieu better known as Saule sometimes
stylized SAULE in all capital letters, (born
September 25. 1977) is a Belgian singer-songwriter
who has found recognition and chart success with
his single "Dusty Men" (featuring Charlie Winston)
followed by his album Géant, that includes French
quality music with Anglo-Saxon rock sound and
country music influences. He is signed to the "30
février" record label.
Saule started writing music releasing his first EP,
Saule, of four tracks on "30 février" in November
2005, followed by his first album Vous êtes ici in
March 2006 on the same label with distribution
rights to the Bang label. The January 2009 album
Western with eleven titles and four bonus tracks
with heavy traditional country music influences was
also marketed in France and Switzerland through
Polydor in addition to Belgium. Géant, released in
November 2012, has had chart success in France.
Le Festin de Saule
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ZOMBIE KIDZ
SPECTACLE MUSICAL IMAGINÉ PAR SAULE
THEATRE / MUSIC / YOUTH THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE
01.11.15
A terrible virus is brainwashing children from
eight to twelve years of age, glued to their games
screens: insomniac with pallid skin, zombies of the
virtual world, all of them will become soldiers of a
megalomaniac colonel… unless Mia, her father and
her friends use song to thwart this evil plot. A little
girl, a marionette that has fallen from the star system,
failed rappers, a geek, a composer who has run out
of inspiration, what a funny team to save humanity
from widespread stupefaction! Only a giant with a big
heart could imagine it with freshness and lightness:
Baptiste Lalieu, alias Saule, singer, composer and
Belgian lyricist took the plunge. An imaginative and
exhilarating musical, led by four musicians, five
singers and a DJ!
CARTE BLANCHE À MARC PINILLA
& OLIVIER MONSSENS
MUSIC / THEATRE AUDITORIUM ABEL DUBOIS
Marc Pinilla and Olivier Monssens are both
fascinated by the "tubes". One in writing, the other
is or documentary or books. Those two has to meet
each others one day... and try the experience of
making a tube in Live!
Marc Pinilla
© DAVID BORMANS
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12
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LES DÉMÉNAGEURS :
DANCE AVEC LES GNOUS !
MUSIC / YOUTH THÉÂTRE ROYAL
16:00
Hurray! The Déménageurs have been selected to
compete in the famous TV show Dance with the
Gnus! It’s not easy for Lili and her brothers who have
to answer difficult questions on the life of animals…
They can only sing if they fulfil this single condition, at
the end of somewhat surprising and always amusing
encounters: a spider which demands the right to be
ugly, a rat crooner, a sad dog, a polecat hidden in the
house… Indeed, there’s plenty going on on stage,
while the artist Yves Dumont sketches this colourful
little world! After the huge success of its ten year
anniversary tour, Belgium’s most famous group packs
in even more humour and energy to the delight of
young and old, as of three years of age.
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FÊTES DE WALLONIE –
CONCERT DE SALVATORE ADAMO
MUSIC GRAND-PLACE
Did you know that Salvatore Adamo won his first
radio contest at the age of 16 with Si j’osais, in
1959, at the Théâtre Royal of Mons, saved from
elimination by a jury member who was seemingly
more enlightened than his colleagues? Forty-three
years later, on 23 June 2002, Elio Di Rupo officially
gave him the freedom of the City of Mons while on
20 October of the same year the Mayor of Comiso,
in Sicily, inaugurated the exhibition Comiso, Adamo’s
village in the Town Hall’s Saint George Room.
Without a doubt: Adamo is from Mons! How about
you? At the heart of the Wallonia Festival, on Mons’
Grand-Place, a classical orchestra will accompany
the biggest hits of this eternally young romantic. La
Nuit, Sur la route des étoiles, whether the snow falls
or not, don’t forget that les roses sont roses: c’est la
vie, inch’Allah!
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Alhambra (Puggy)
© VINCENT PHILBERT / KMERON
Pascal Goossens is an insatiable
nocturnal adventurer. He skims the best
clubs in Europe for 20 years, both as a fan of
electronic music as a DJ undwer the American-Lynchian nickname Alex Palmer. His
experiences as artistic director at clubs such
as Spirito and Mirano in Brussels led him to
happily accept the position of Manager of
the Alhambra. He is responsible for different
musical projects in the city of Mons, where
has been living for over 15 years.
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Just a (cobble)stone’s throw from the GrandPlace, the Alhambra has been patiently biding
its time. Built in 1920 and a legend on the Mons
nightlife scene, this venue has also been a cinema,
a night club and a bowling alley, only to become
today the heart of the music scene for a whole
region. Bearing the brand of the great graffiti artist
BONOM, from early 2014 the Alhambra is giving
you the chance to take a dive - however, no flippers
or rubber rings! - right into the musical waters of
pop, rock and electro. The goal: to break down the
barriers between different musical genres to get the
very best out of music. The programming, as electric
as it is eclectic, promotes Belgian talents as well
4, RUE DU MIROIR, MONS
—
CONCERT HALL + SMOKING AREA UPSTAIRS
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CAPACITY: 327 PEOPLE
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MANAGER: PASCAL GOOSSENS
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PROGRAMME: PHILIPPE DEGENEFFE (MONS
2015), PASCAL GOOSSENS (ALHAMBRA)
& PHILIPPE KAUFFMANN (MONS 2015)
as international and fosters local scene alongside
established artists. Although the festival season is
nearly over, here you can discover new artists and
enjoy your favourites all over again. Hot classic
standards will put the place upside down during the
Opening Party, but DJs will run the after-parties all
year long. So come lose yourself at the Alhambra, in
2015 and way beyond…
HAVE ALREADY PERFORMED IN ALHAMBRA
Nhar Rodriguez Jr Felix Cage Souldust Rick Shiver Rodolphe Burger Naive New
Beaters Bernard Dobbeleer Joy Wellboy The Tangerines Jetlag We Are Enfant Terrible
Kid Noize Girls In Hawaii Six Way To Funk L-Fêtes Pale Grey The Feathers Fastlane Candies
Nonotak Fdvm Od Math Stereoclip Attar ! Suarez Hippocampe Fou Veence Hanao
Kiani And His Legion Maxim Lany Jelly Bellies Intergalactic Lovers Piers Faccini Tim Baresko
Compuphonic The Lizzies Wall Of Death Mountain Bike Rob & Zoopsie Poni Hoax
Mein Sohn William Lorenzo Ottati DJ Falcon Massimo Dacosta Alex Palmer Get Mad Night
Romano Nervoso Big Moustache Bandits Black Mirrors Snooba Douglas Greed Madensuyu
Swingers Cheveu Oscar & The Wolf Joy Joy As A Toy Anthea La Smala Aeroplane
Moaning Cities Peter Pan Speedrock Diablo Blvd BJ Scott Rampue Sworn Enemy
Thell Barrio Da Crown Chapelier Fou Asian Dub Foundation The Herbaliser Black Strobbe
Les Panties Nico Duportal Crystal And The Runnin Wild The Boxer Rebellion Party Harders
DJ Madgic DJ Leroy Do Or Die Pigeon John
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Crazy musical experiences,
intimate concerts and large set, young
talent and big names in the music scene,
works of the repertoire and unexpected
discovery ... Crossing chamber music,
literature, jazz, contemporary, classical and
even rock, Frank Braley and Royal Chamber
Orchestra of Wallonia, we should be a rich
and bold programming, an exceptional
season.
ORCHESTRE ROYAL DE CHAMBRE
DE WALLONIE
A BRILLANT SEASON
MUSIC THÉÂTRE ROYAL DE MONS / ARSONIC / HÔTEL
DE VILLE / ALHAMBRA / CONSERVATOIRE ROYAL DE MUSIC /
CARRÉ DES ARTS / COLLÉGIALE SAINTE-WAUDRU
WWW.ORCW.BE
Since he took over, the pianist Franck Braley
has been administering shock therapy to the
12 classical musicians of the Royal Chamber
Orchestra of Wallonia, to the point of monopolising
the Alhambra, Mons’ new pop-rock temple, during
the Mons 2015 opening ceremony. Discover the
season of all the openings, which won’t be a
disappointment to “great music” aficionados. Our
concerts give you a change of scenery through
different eras, continents and the imagination. At
the Théâtre Royal or at the Alhambra, at the Town
Hall, Sainte-Waudru or at the Conservatoire, in
the new ARSONIC auditorium... Women Women
Women, on 6 February, Mozart in chamber music,
on 27 March, The colours of Algeria on 21 May,
Focus on youth from 26 to 28 June, a Métarequiem,
on 10 October… Augustin Dumay, famous violinist
and Franck Braley’s predecessor at the head of the
orchestra, will also be performing.
12 EXCEPTIONAL CONCERTS
24.01.15 > 28.11.15
24.01.2015 ALHAMBRA
Soirée ORCW
06.02.2015 HÔTEL DE VILLE
Femmes Femmes Femmes
05.03.2015 THÉÂTRE ROYAL
Et 1 et 2 et 3 et 4 pianos
27.03.2015 HÔTEL DE VILLE
Mozart en chambre
Soirée aux couleurs de l’Algérie
09.06.2015 ARSONIC
Braley / Dessy / Dumay
26.06.2015 > 28.06.2015 CONSERVATOIRE
Place aux jeunes : côté Cour, Côté Jardin
09.07.2015 CARRÉ DES ARTS
Cross-over
17.09.2015 ARSONIC
Découvertes musicales
10.10.2015 COLLÉGIALE SAINTE-WAUDRU
Métarequiem
Et 1, et 2, et 3 et 4 violons
Les 40 ans de Machiavel
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WOMEN, WOMEN, WOMEN
CONCERT MONS ET MERVEILLES (PROMISE OF THE EARTH CONCERT)
ROYAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF WALLONIA
MUSIC SALON GOTHIQUE DE L’HÔTEL DE VILLE DE MONS
19:30
WWW.ORCW.BE
Mons et Merveilles (Promise of the Earth) is a programme of chamber music concerts to be experienced in
the major heritage site of the City, full of history dear to the residents of Mons: The Gothic Hall of the Town
Hall, ideal setting to recreate the ambiance of the salons of the XVIII century.
A selection of convivial evenings during which the musicians, in the centre of the public, lead their listeners
to the discovery of classical music.
In the intimacy of the salons of the Town Hall, an evening devoted to female artists: The musicians of the
ORCW Isabelle Bonesire, Isabelle Scoubeau, Anne Pingen and Edith Baugnies will interpret the works
of four female composers: the Quatuor à cordes (Quartet for Strings) by Henriette Bosmans, Sicilienne
(Sicilian) (arrangement for solo violin and three strings) by Thérésa Von Paradis, Quatuor à cordes n°3
(Quartet for Strings No.3) by Elisabeth Maconchy and the Quartet of Fanny Mendelsshon.
A discovery-programme punctuated by the reading of erotic texts written by women, selected and read by
Cécile Van Snick, Director of the Théâtre Jean Vilar.
A co-production of the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia and the Mons 2015 Foundation . With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels
Federation , the City of Mons, the National Lottery. In partnership with Soroptimist Mons-Borinage.
05.03.15
AND 1 AND 2 AND 3 AND 4 PIANOS !
20:00
WWW.ORCW.BE
With four pianos on the stage in a rather unusual configuration, a team of Belgian-French pianists: Jean
Claude Van den Eyden, Eliane Reyes, Julien Libeer (soloist at the Queen Elizabeth Musical Chapel), Anne
Queffélec, Rémi Geniet (2nd prize at the 2013 Queen Elizabeth Competition) rejoin Frank Braley, Head
of the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, 1st prize and audience award of the 1991 Queen Elizabeth
Competition for a prestigious concert dedicated to Bach Concertos.
A co-production of the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia and the Mons 2015 Foundation. With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels
Federation, the City of Mons, the National Lottery.
27.03.15
MOZART – BRAHMS EN CHAMBRE
CONCERT MONS ET MERVEILLES (PROMISE OF THE EARTH CONCERT)
MUSIC SALON GOTHIQUE DE L’HÔTEL DE VILLE DE MONS
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Mons et Merveilles (Promise of the Earth) is a programme of chamber music concerts to be experienced in
the major heritage site of the City, full of history dear to the residents of Mons: The Gothic Hall of the Town
Hall, ideal setting to recreate the ambiance of the salons of the XVIII century.
A selection of convivial evenings during which the musicians, in the centre of the public, lead their listeners
to the discovery of classical music.
This occasion will be devoted to Mozart and Brahms with Augustin Dumay at the violin and Frank Braley at
the piano.
On the programme:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet No. 4 in G minor K. 516
Augustin Dumay, Pascal Crismer, Anne Pingen, Pascal Schmidt and Hans Vandaele
Johannes Brahms: 1st Sonata
Augustin Dumay, violin and Frank Braley, piano
A co-production of the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia and the Mons 2015 Foundation. With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels
Federation, the City of Mons, the National Lottery.
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EVENING UNDER THE COLOURS OF ALGERIA
Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia welcomes the National Symphony Orchestra of Algeria.
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EXCLUSIVE TRIO FOR AN UNUSUAL MEETING
MUSIC ARSONIC
20:00
The Music Director of the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles (New Music Ensemble), the cellist Jean-Paul Dessy
will be the partner of the pianist Frank Braley, current Music Director of the ORCW and violinist Augustin
Dumay, Guest First Chair, for a trio concert in the new hall dedicated to sound, Arsonic.
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PLACE AUX JEUNES (YOUNG PEOPLE’S PLACE) / COURTYARD SIDE, GARDEN SIDE
MUSIC CONSERVATOIRE ROYAL
Festival dedicated to young talent of the Royal Conservatory of Mons. These companionship concerts are
also open to young musicians from European Capitals of Culture.
IN THE CONTEXT OF FESTIVAL AU CARRÉ
09.07.15
CROSS-OVER
MUSIC CARRÉ DES ARTS
Le Festival au Carré will invite Augustin Dumay, Frank Braley, Philip Catherine and their friends to a crossover programme.
IN THE CONTEXT OF L’ORCW, INSTITUTION PARTENAIRE
17.09.15
MUSICAL DISCOVERIES
MUSIC ARSONIC
20:00
A discovery concert of rare works in cooperation with the Musicology Department of the UCL and Frank
Braley.
IN THE CONTEXT OF L’ORCW, INSTITUTION PARTENAIRE
10.10.15
METAREQUIEM
CHORALE ISHANGO & ORCHESTRE ROYAL DE CHAMBRE DE WALLONIE, DIRECTION FRANK BRALEY
MUSIC SAINTE-WAUDRU
20:00
Take a movement from the Requiem by François-Joseph Fétis and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, add a
third of the Messe des Morts by François-Joseph Gossec and the collegiate church of Sainte-Waudru will
resound with a grand and fervent work! The Missa pro defunctis by Gossec d’Anvers (born in Vergnies,
today located in Hainaut), both innovative and powerful, probably inspired Mozart’s Requiem and very
clearly Berlioz’s la Grande Messe des morts. And how could you not be familiar with Mons native Fétis,
an incredible encyclopedist of music, whose scores are so often unfairly snubbed? The solemn splendour
will exalt the romantic spirits for this penultimate concert for the Orlando di Lasso Week which, for the
occasion, takes the listener on a journey from the Renaissance to the 19th century.
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AND 1, 2, 3 AND VIOLONS
20:00
With the ORCW, Augustin Dumay and three violinists from his class at the Musical Chapel, Lorenzo Gatto,
second prize at the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition, Yossif Ivanov, second prize at the 2005 Queen
Elisabeth Competition and Hrachya Avanesyan who currently form the Trilogy Ensemble. The programme
will be devoted to Vivaldi, Bach, the great standards of classic music and of the popular repertoire revisited
by the Trilogy Ensemble.
28.11.15
THE 40 YEARS OF MACHIAVEL
20:00
The Machiavelli Group, accompanied by the ORCW, will launch in Mons the tour celebrating its 40 years
of existence. This anniversary concert will be the occasion to discover the emblematic titles of the Belgian
rock group.
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FESTIVAL DES (RENCONTRES)
INATTENDUES
FESTIVAL OF THE UNEXPECTED
(MEETINGS)
WHEN MUSIC AND PHILOSOPHY GRASP NEW
TECHNOLOGIES.
ATELIERS
The Unexpected (Meetings) Festival combines
philosophy and music, in the heart exceptional
heritage of the City of Tournai, decorated for the
occasion with new and surprising scenography.
From Mediaeval music to contemporary music
passing through pop, jazz and music of the world,
with about one hundred philosophers, musicians
and actors, the spirit is toward emotion.
In 2015, the Festival will expand its orientation of
mixing culture and contemporary technologies.
Through the project Festival of Unexpected
(Meetings) of technology, culture and generations
through music and philosophy, it questions the
status of the audience and invites the spectator to
experiment, thanks to the new digital tools, new
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Directing the project are the philosopher, Bernard
Stiegler, and the jazz musician, Bernard Lubat, who
are creating starting in October 2014 a touring and
temporary school of music and philosophy.
This new type of school, open to all music
enthusiasts, will offer three workshops and a
summer academy which will train the “students” in
the practice and critique of improvised music. To
do this, automatic analysis software will be used
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of the music and annotation software in real time
developed for this occasion by the IRI (l’Institut de
Recherche et d’Innovation du Centre Pompidou –
Research and Innovation Institute of the Pompidou
Centre). These workshops will also be spaces
for reflection led by philosophers, musicologists,
anthropologists, artists and musicians.
The objective of these preparatory activities is to
give the festival public listening criteria, which will
be means for enriching the aesthetic experience of
the concert and be able to critique this experience.
It intends to make the public get out of the position
of consumer in which one always has the tendency
to become immersed, and learn to practice digital
technologies for the training of new societies of
enthusiasts, in the noble sense of the term.
The project will have its grand finale at the Festival
of the Unexpected during an evening of collective
improvisation, between a concert and spectacular
show.
Une coproduction de la Province de Hainaut, la Fabrique de théâtre,
Maison de la culture de Tournai, l’Institut de Recherche et Innovation
(Paris) et de la Fondation Mons 2015.
CITY SONIC
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF SOUND
ART
MONS INTRAMUROS
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PROGRAMME COMPLET DISPONIBLE EN MARS
2015.
City Sonic, festival of sound art in the urban space,
presents every year at Mons, a dozen projects
on site in a spirit that is pioneering, travelling and
unifying. This creation festival gathers Belgian
and international artists from different disciplines
(current music, visual arts, literature, digital arts,
radio creation, design,...) in different heritage and
unusual sites with sound as the unifying trait.
In 2015, the festival will become, for the thirteenth
occasion, a great urban hub without borders with
Sonic Métro, a route of audio-innovative, poetic and
playful facilities which will put sound, by network
and by" work" onto the blue line of the Métro
Europa creating “mobile audio”. Many partnerships
(with Rhizome/Québec, Plzen2015, Art Zoyd/
Valenciennes…) highlight both great names of
sound creation and "emerging sounds" in particular
via the exchange network between Belgian and
foreign schools of art which will have benefited
from prior residencies and technological support.
Highlights, travelling performances, concerts (from
music to sonic), workshops (Sonic Kids, Fabaudio-Lab), public and professional meetings….
will punctuate a festival that more than ever before
will invest in the public space to transform it and
connect it to the four corners of planet sound.
Artistic Direction: Philippe Franck
A project of Transcultures in co-production with manège.mons and
With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Foundation.
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LASSUS, DE L’ÉGLISE AU CAFÉ !
BARATHON LASSUS
MUSIC
MECHELEN, CENTRE VILLE - 20.09.2015
MONS, CENTRE VILLE - 10.10.2015
EVÉNEMENT GRATUIT
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The polyphonist composers of the Renaissance were
not afraid of anything and composed some very
popular genres. They put texts of the world to music,
often ambiguous and mixing subjects such as luxury,
desire, infidelity, drunkenness, grotesque stories,…
Zefiro Torna, the musical ensemble of ancient music
of Malines (Mechelen), will take you on a “Barathon of
Lassus”. Accompanied by a vocal ensemble, depart
with them on this joyous tour of bars and brasseries
of the city. For your greatest pleasure, they will draw
on the repertoire of Roland de Lassus to launch into
French songs, Italian villanelles and German bawdy
songs the length of the route.
But to maintain a touch of seriousness in this
risqué programme, other more “highbrow” musical
performances will be offered. Jurgen De Bruyn,
Artistic Director of Zefiro Torna, will interpret works of
Roland de Lassus on the lute during a solo concert.
The works of Roland de Lassus (born in Mons)
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THE GENTLEMEN SINGERS
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ANUNA
18.10.2015 - 17:00
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IN THE CONTEXT OF SAINT-GHISLAIN, VILLE PARTENAIRE
ECHO FESTIVAL
MUSIC ÉGLISE SAINT-GÉRY - BAUDOUR
Native of Saint-Ghislain, Jean Ockeghem is
considered the father of polyphony. He is one of
the most brilliant composers of the XV century. In
his memory, the Cité de l’Ourse (City of the Bear)
organises every year in October the Festival of
Polyphony ECHO, a major musical event, centred on
the multiple facets of the human voice.
The Festival will assume a special significance in
2015 participating in harmony with the week devoted
to Roland de Lassus in Mons by inviting particular
famous vocal ensembles such as Laudantes Consort
(Belgium), Anuna (Ireland) and Gentlemen Singers
(Czech Republic).
At the same time as the echoes of the Festival, a
video projection will take you on a virtual journey
in the XV century, in the historical heart of SaintGhislain. Culture, technology and history will become
one for 3 days.
A project of the City and Saint-Ghislain Cultural Centre
in co-production with the Mons 2015 Foundation.
With the support of Wallonia.
and Philippe Monte (born in Malines) will come
together in a new concert of the Musica Divina
series organised within the context of the Festival of
Flanders.
Lover of ancient music, certainly in 2015, Malines will
know how to surprise you!
With the support of the City of Malines
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KARELLE MÉNINE
Author, artistic director of Fatrasproduction Cie, member of Civic City Institute.
She did quit her job as a journalist/reporter for
France Culture and Radio suisse romande in
2008 to focus on her own artistic work. She
presents " Chanteur plutôt qu’acteur " at the
Festival of Avignon 2008. From 2009 until
2012 she has been organizing " Conversations de l’Ecole d’art ". She is a resident
of La Chartreuse les Avignon, organizes
literary nights " Rasades poétiques " at Palais
Mascotte in Genève and leads the Literature-projects of Mons.
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In Mons, literature has its own story to tell, in particular about poetry.
There are cities which for some historical reason equip themselves with a forward looking
past. Fernand Dumont would say: "it is notby chance but by desire…"
Fernand Dumont is a splendid poet, so much in love with his city that he took its name. A
member of Rupture, he was, with Achille Chavée, one of the essential actors in the Hainaut
surrealist movement during the first half of the 20th century. This group was so inventive
that only World War II could break it. Before them there was the great Flemish poet Emile
Verhaeren who held seat in Roisin, near the site aptly named "Caillou-qui-bique". His
friends then were Stefan Zweig, André Gide, Maurice Maeterlinck,Stéphane Mallarmé,
Rainer Maria Rilke… But there was also Verlaine who wrote some of his best poems in
prison, in thesilence of cell 252, and Marguerite Bervoets, herself a poet, just as resistance
fighter… So many writers, so many jolts.
Mons is certainly a special city. If its literary past is rich, if its
contemporary authors are important, and if unique forces exist
within the city, such as booksellers and librarians, the city is also fighting against the crisis
which affects - not reading per se – but the readers themselves.
Designing a literary project for the year 2015 means constructing a scenario for a stage
where literature can be shared with everyone, indeed, where the word "literature" can
be extracted and exposed for all to partake of in this very public space, to reconquer the
imaginary world of poetry.
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RUEDI BAUR
Having created the Bbv studio in Lyon
in 1983, in 1989 he cofounded the interdisciplinary network Intégral Concept and has
since directed the Intégral Ruedi Baur studios
in Paris, Zurich, and Berlin. Towards the end
of the 80s, Baur came to Paris and developed design projects for major Parisian art
institutions including the Picasso Museum,
the Louvre and, in particular, the Pompidou Center. Baur designed the complete
wayfinding and identification system for the
Pompidou Center’s reopening in 2000.
At this period, his work became more specifically focused on architecture and development.
He brought the separate fields of architecture and urban development more
closely together through his interventions in
identification, guidance and scenography of
institutions and their political territory.
Baur developed this multidisciplinary design
specificity, creating the Intégral network of
studios with Pippo Lionni and Philippe Delis in
Paris, Zurich and Berlin.He created the Design2context Institute at the Zürcher Hochschule
der Künste, which he has directed with Stefanie-Vera Kockot and Clemens Bellut from 2004
to 2011, then the institute for critical research
in design and network "Civic city".
Sortir les mots des livres,
leur redonner de l'air.
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He also teaches at the École des arts décoratifs in Paris, as well as regularly in China
at the Luxun Academy in Shenjang and the
Central Academy of Arts (Cafa) in Beijing,
and at the Percé international school, linked
with the University of Laval in Quebec, which
awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2007.
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LITERATURE / ART IN THE CITY WALKING TOUR LA PHRASE
MONS INTRAMUROS
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CREATED BY KARELLE MÉNINE
ET RUEDI BAUR
richness and originality of the works, notably in
poetry. It will inscribe literature on the territory and
invent a new way to read a literary space.
Mons 2015 will write a 10 km long Phrase
in the heart of town. Put together a collection
of quotes from authors from a widening circle
in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium and finally from the
whole world, this human-sized piece of literature
will make the future European capital of culture a
city which can proudly herald its literary history.
How did this original idea come about? It came
from three observations:
• Mons LITERATURE is rich in men and
women writers, rich in movements, texts and
exchanges. riche d’échanges.
• LITERATURE is first and foremost a style, a
gesture, and a material.
• A man or woman writer takes over the thoughts
left behind by the preceding author…Writers,
works, from one period to the next, are thus
talking amongst themselves, as well as to
everyone.
A SPACE TO INSCRIBE FORGOTTEN
WRITINGS
The Phrase will be written from the literary heritage
of Mons – notably the surrealist movement which
was very active here. But many great European
authors will also be honored, from Stefan Zweig to
André Gide through Hugo, Verlaine, de Beauvoir,
each and every one of whom wrote about Mons.
The reason is that Mons was – this is barely known
- a beacon, a meeting place for an exchange of
ideas, quarrels, shared enthusiasm and unions
between the greatest writers.
The Phrase will also look into the intimate side:
the history of each, the great History, anecdotes,
documents and private diaries…
The Phrase will mix Mons local vernacular with
French, German and Russian and will highlight the
WORK IN PROGRESS DURING ONE YEAR
Between December 2014 and December
2015, every day, a segment of phrase will be
painted on a wall, reacting to its porosity, the shape
of bricks, windows and street corners. The Phrase
will progress according to its own writing rhythm,
from mid-December 2014 to mid-December 2015.
The typography will be one of a kind and use the
stencil process.
A work taking 52 weeks "which corresponds
to the necessity today to remove literature from
THE literature and to respond to the need to return
to the city these words which are its own to play
with" says Karelle Ménine who will compose
the sentence, playing with the textual elements,
improvisations, and encounters with citizens and
shopkeepers from the town centre.
A CITY IN CAPITAL LETTERS
As for Ruedi Baur, an internationally known graphic
designer who specialises in urban space writing,
he will work with his team on the graphic design
and the implementation of the Phrase in the city.
It will start with a capital letter "and equally will end
with a capital letter, as all letters which compose
the phrase will be in capitals" explains Ruedi Baur.
The work will start at the Mons railway station,
welcoming visitors from all over. "After havingvisited
the city, the Phrase will return to the same railway
station to conclude with a full stop. If it could be
seen from the sky, the Phrase would present a
strange figure each limb of which is both linked to
the Grand-Place and stretches out to the different
districts", he concluded.
The Phrase will be readable in its entirety at the end
of the year.
Then, some segments will be erased, one by one.
Some others, in agreement with the owners of the
buildings and the city, will remain.
The words of the poets will stay inscribed there,
a homecoming of sorts…
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Born in Mons in 1960, Carl Norac was first a French teacher, wandering librarian, journalist and literary history teacher at the Mons Royal Conservatory before he
could afford to live from his writings alone.
As a poet, he has published a dozen collections of works (at Editions de la
Différence and at L’Escampette). In 1993, "Dimanches aux Hespérides" gave the
poet his first recognition in France. The critic Alain Bosquet, in Le Figaro, talked of a
"major promise for French poetry". "Voltaire is reconciled with Rimbaud" said Pierre
Mertens in Le Soir. His second passion leads him to travel the world.
Thanks to his friendship with Hugo Claus, he walks on stage to read his
poems beside the great man. In the last few years, Norac has published several
collection of works in prose: " Le carnet bleu ", " Métropolitaines " (L’escampette), "
Sonates pour un home seul ", " Une valse pour Billie "…
In 2005 Carl Norac was selected among seven European writers for the Paris
event "Lire en fête", together with Jean Echenoz, Claudio Magris, Enrique Vila-Matas, Antonio Lobo Antunes and Milan Kundera within the "Lire l’Europe" project.
His works have been honoured twice by the Belgian Royal Academy for
French language and literature. He is above all the author of more than sixty books
for children, translated to this day into more than 40 languages around the world,
mostly published by Pastel (Ecole des Loisirs).
Carl Norac
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MONS INTRAMUROS
It was with real pleasure that Carl Norac
agreed to become an "accomplice artist"
because he is in love with Mons, in love with
words and in love with meeting people.
in October 2015. He will be exhibition curator for
his private collection of more than 50 documents,
including some rare pieces, covering a century of
illustration.
It was with real pleasure that Carl Norac
agreed to become an "accomplice artist" because
he is in love with Mons, in love with words and in
love with meeting people.
Carl Norac will also be editor-in-chief of the
literary gazette "L’Impertinente", a place for literary
exchanges which will be published quarterly in
2015…
He will create eight meetings within the territory
of which he will offer an account during a special
evening at the Illustrated Book Fair in Jemappes
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NOIRS QUARTS D’HEURE
PERFORMANCE / LITERATURE MONS-BORINAGE
The miners had a tradition: in the evening, they would read a story to their children in the dark for a quarter
of an hour. To save candles? To hide the fact that not all of them knew how to read? To help making up
a story? Whatever the explanation, we cherish this beautiful tradition. This ritual quarter-hour has been
revived. A story, shared in the intimacy of an encounter by readers who love well-travelled texts. In 2015,
words and stories, poetry and fairies will be escaping from books in all sorts of locations, in the dark: a
concert hall, a café, a stadium or a hospital… All that’s needed is a bedside lamp, a book, a microphone, a
discreet sound system and the generosity of a storyteller…
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" L’IMPERTINENTE ", LA GAZETTE
PUBLICATION / DEBATE
Ladies and gentlemen, ask for L’Impertinente, the gazette that’s not niggardly with words! Four rebellious,
pugnacious, quarrelsome issues chronicle culture in Mons in 2015 and cause a stir. Its co-editor together
with the Literature team is said to be no less a figure than the poet Carl Norac. Incisively frenzied!
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A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS AT MAISON FOLIE
AN EVENING WITH CARL NORAC
LITERATURE / PERFORMANCE ESPACE DES POSSIBLES
A ‘Weekend en Folie’ with a whiff of the Thousand and One Nights: this is the intriguing challenge that Carl
Norac takes up as he transports us to 13th century Persia and the palace of Sultan Shahryar… Will we
meet the provocative Scheherazade? Make yourselves comfortable: the story is about to begin.
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A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS AND A FEW GRAMS OF SUGAR
ESPACE DES POSSIBLES
An actress, Isabella Sarmiento, and a cook, Laurent Domenjoz, get together to take you to a world of magic
where you will dip your hands in honey, sesame and various magic potions…
IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK FESTIVAL
16.10.15
> 22.11.15
DE DICKENS AUX SIMPSONS, UN SIÈCLE D’IMAGES
CABINET D’ILLUSTRATIONS
LITERATURE / EXHIBITION BIBLIOTHEQUE DE JEMAPPES
The Mons writer Carl Norac is a poet with a keen awareness of children’s imagination. His children’s books,
most of them published with Pastel, have been translated into fifteen languages. An accomplice artist of
Mons 2015, he is brimming with brilliant brainwaves and plans for creative gatherings: an impudent and
lively literary gazette called L’Impertinente, poetry gatherings throughout Greater Mons, a thousand-andfirst night at the Maison Folie and a Mons mystery entitled Noir quart d’heure (‘Dark quarter-hour’), to be
published by Pastel. He generously exhibits his private collection of illustrative drawings, including dozens
of rare documents from the 19th century to the present day: Benjamin Rabier, Art Spiegelman, Terry
Gilliam… We are promised words and wonders! And on the occasion of the opening of this festival on 16
October, he awaits you for an unusual pyjama party: bring your nighties and nightcaps!
IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK FESTIVAL
16.10.15
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INTERIOR LETTERS
YOUTH / PARTICIPATION / LITERATURE BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE JEMAPPES
Children from the Borinage exchange an illustrated letter with twenty-eight European illustrators… An
unusual correspondence in which each contributor draws his or her iconoclastic and varied vision of the
other…
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AN EVENING WITH DOMINIQUE BLANC
MUSIC / THEATRE THÉÂTRE LE MANÈGE
31.03.15 - 20:00
Awarded two Molières and four Césars, actress
Dominique Blanc plunges into the heart of the
literature of Belgium and of Mons, displaying
her skill as a reader of Verlaine, Rimbaud and
Verhaeren, Fernand Dumont, Achille Chavée,
Marguerite Bervoets and others. In the intimacy
of the stage of the Théâtre Le Manège, she freely
roams these texts in her own way, at her own pace,
and in her own voice. Funny, lively and intense,
Dominique Blanc treats us to an exceptional
evening of discourse with the poets.
An evening with Dominique Blanc
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MONS BOOK CLUB
In its third season, this is a club whose
sessions are open to anyone who enjoys reading, discovering, sharing their thoughts about
a book, a writer, a work… Just come along,
and we’ll take care of the rest (wine, snacks
and words): our passionate wish is to help you
discover some unusual books and spend the
evening discussing them with us.
The book titles are communicated at least one
month before each club meeting.
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10.04.2015 MAISON FOLIE
Spécial Carl Norac
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In partnership with the Goethe Institute, Kris Lauwerys and
artists from the Literature programme.
AND ALSO…
IN COLLABORATION WITH MONS
PRISON
On 24 January, the night of the Opening Party: 440 meals created by a master chef
and a special reading moment will be offered
to the inmates and prison personnel, as well
as a bright, special moment, outside… Texts
by Dumont, Verlaine, Bervoets (all of whom
spent time in Mons Prison) read by Karelle
Ménine, accompanied by the superb cellist
Nicolas Deletaille, for a shared moment of
fantasy… The whole literary team enters the
prison to help those who live there to ‘escape’
for a while…
Establishment of twice-weekly workshops in typography and writing from November. Objective: to play around with the act of
reading or writing via typography. These workshops will add flesh to the notion of a mural
that will be created by the inmates within the
prison in June. The mural will be funded by
the piecemeal sale of Kitty Crowther’s box,
with the artist’s consent.
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PARTICIPATION / EUROPE
SLAMons
MAISON FOLIE
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FREE ENTRY
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Slam in all its forms
SLAMONS&FRIENDS
MONTHLY POETRY SLAM OPEN-STAGE
SESSIONS
MUSIC / PARTICIPATION Over an entire weekend, slammers from all
three regions of Belgium and all four corners of
Europe will compete in an international tournament
of colourful verbal jousting, in a lively atmosphere of
mingled respect and (above all) friendliness. Watch
a preview performance of the show Capital(e)(s),
resulting from the residency of slammers from
home and abroad. Attend the noisy show of the
Grandiloquent Moustache Poésie Club! Spoken
word virtuosi Astien, Ed Wood and Mathurin bring
bold and joyful poetry to life. At the intersection
between slam, comedy and dinner theatre, they
derisively retrace their progress in a thoroughly
off-beat world. Finally, visit the exhibition Slam à la
Maison Folie, de 2008 à 2015, which examines how
this unknown discipline gradually established its
place in the Mons cultural scene. The spotlight is
on the hundreds of slammers who have roamed the
venues of Mons ever since.
A joint production of the Mons
2015 Foundation and the Collective
enV.I.E.S.
INTER-SCHOOL SLAM
ESPACE DES POSSIBLES
29.04.2015
On the subject of utopia, some ten classes from
primary and secondary schools in the Mons
area will offer some gems of poetry. Following
workshops held throughout the year, these young
people will share texts of their own devising. A
moment of poetry tinged with humour, freshness
and inventiveness.
MAISON FOLIE
15.01 / 12.02 / 05.03 / 09.04 / 08.10 / 19.11 / 17.12.2015
MAISON LOSSEAU
21.05.2015
As part of the prize-winning project, SLAMons &
Friends, the collective EnV.I.E.S. invites you to eight
poetry slam open-stage sessions from January to
December 2015.
For three minutes, have your say, confide, shout,
whisper. Try slamming, and slamming will accept
you as one of its own! Open to all: simply register
just before you go on stage.
Neither rap nor improvisation, slam is a moment
of freedom. For three minutes, standing and
facing the audience, you will have the opportunity
to speak, confide, scream, move, make people
laugh. Whatever your style, come and express your
experiences, your feelings, your commitment, your
hopes, your dreams, your desires. Unvarnished,
without musical support, props or costumes, just
you, the audience… and your words. And the icing
on the cake is a free drink for every poem!
Of course, you can also watch the show purely as a
member of the audience, but watch out… the virus
is easily caught!
Each open-stage session will be preceded by a
writing workshop from 5 to 7 pm, which is open to
both beginners and experienced slammers. These
workshops will be free; just bring your desire to
write and share.
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THE MAISON LOSSEAU: SEAT OF
THE LITERARY DEPARTMENT OF HAINAUT
PROVINCE
Literature is invited, sampled, reinvented and shared in the garden of the Maison Losseau, the splendid Art Nouveau home
of a noted literary connoisseur! Near a Gingko
biloba, an ephemeral bookshop is planted: Le
Cent livres brings together ten booksellers:
eight from Belgium, one from France and one
from Switzerland, each of which reveals its
ten favourite books. Artists are invited, with
whom we pass through the looking-glass…
In a lounge that opens onto the garden, the
author and illustrator Kitty Crowther installs a
mysterious slag heap populated with amazing
characters, crazy trees, unexpected words
and topsy-turvy worlds. So let’s drink with the
poets to the inauguration of the literary café!
From now until 30 September: words are what
counts! And stay on for the surprise concert in
the evening…
La Guingette littéraire
© JULIETTE MANCINI
Located close to the Grand-Place in
Mons, the Maison Losseau is a neo-classical
townhouse which was transformed at the
beginning of the 20th century by Belgian
architect Paul Saintenoy, under the guidance
of its owner, Léon Losseau, an attorney at law
(1869-1949). The building, whose external
fixtures and glass house were made by Henri
Sauvage and Charles Sarrazin, constitutes a
major, and isolated, example of Art Nouveau
in Mons. At the end of 2011 the Province of
Hainaut decided to reinvest in this jewel and,
thanks to the Région Wallone, initiated an
ambitious work programme for the restoration of the house located at 37 rue de Nimy,
already protected, and the renovation of the
adjoining buildings at numbers 39 and 41.
Hainaut Culture Tourisme, in partnership with the Losseau Foundation, is using
it to develop a policy of promoting authors
through the organisation of literary prizes (Plinier, Gauchez- Philippot, regional languages)
and meetings, workshops and exhibitions.
Furthermore, the 39-41 building will
soon host a space dedicated to temporary
exhibitions, a Centre for Hainaut literature and
a Centre for interpretation will allow visitors
to embrace the whole artistic, architectural
bequeathed by Léon Losseau.
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ATMOSPHERE
Literary
JARDIN LOSSEAU
Guinguette
There was a need for a special place for this
literary year, a place to meet, read, share, dream,
listen…The garden of the Maison Losseau will
become this place in 2015, the place for European
writings. The place will be a hive of activity, open
from 23 April to 30 September in the shape of a
"Literary Guinguette" and a tailored-made pop-up
library.
This venue will open with a very particular
installation imagined and designed by Kitty Crowther,
writer and illustrator, the 2010 award winner of the
prestigious Lindgren prize. A dive into the fantastic
world of the slagheap, an imaginary space on a large
scale, drawn from top to bottom, a kind of house
which will be open to everyone for one month, as long
as they enter through a very very tiny door…
LOSSEAU, A MAN OF LETTERS
Léon Losseau was in love with literary works
and a strong supporter of literature to which he
devoted most of his life. As the interior of the house
is protected and public access limited, Mons 2015
willbe present in the garden of the house, play with
the trees and the silence and make the most of the
warm season. All of this within a singular scenography
created by Anne Desclée, for the Literary Guinguette
to be open from 23 April to 30 September 2015.
There will be three distinct settings:
- The 100 books library: ten associated
booksellers, eight Belgian (Polar&Co, André Leto
and Florilèges in Mons; Point Virgule in Namur; L’Île
aux trésors in Liège, Ptyx, Tropismes and Joli Mai in
Brussels), a Swiss (La librairie du midi in Oron sur
Lausanne) and a French one (Les Oiseaux rares in
Paris). Ten different bookshops that, each in their own
way, will work on making the meeting between the
reader and contemporary literature a special moment.
Each bookseller has chosen a European author who
over a period of ten Saturdays will come and meet
his/her public at the Maison Losseau. A specific
project will also associate Mons booksellers Scientia
and L’oiseau-lire.
- "Petits brols et bouts de scotch": workshops
for all ages over a Sunday brunch with artists who will
turn writing workshops upside down.
- The literary bar: absinthe, beer, Irish whisky,
hop tea, plenty enough to quench literary thirst while
sipping an elixir with a book at hand, and find peace
and quiet under a tree.
In association with Pilen (a Brussels-based
multi-professional partnership for digital literature and
writing), our last weekend at the Losseau house will
discuss digital literature and writing. This will not be a
forum or a series of lectures, but an unusual meeting
open to everyone, from specialists to bystanders, in
an attempt to answer the questions that the digital
world offers to the world of literature…
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OPENING OF THE LITERARY OPEN AIR CAFÉ WITH KITTY CROWTHER
INAUGURATION / PARTY / INSTALLATION
INSTALLATION: INSIDE
À PARTIR DE 18:00
Plunge into the wonderful world of the slag heap, an outsized fantastical creation designed from floor to ceiling
in a kind of house or box which, for a month, will be open to all, provided they enter through a tiny little door…
The Maison Losseau opens its Open Air Café, and festivities both poetical and musical await you – but we’ll
say no more than that…
KITTY CROWTHER
Kitty Crowther is a Belgian illustrator and
author of children’s literature, born on 4 April
1970 in Brussels. After graduating in fine arts
from the École supérieure des arts Saint-Luc
in Brussels, she began illustrating and then
publishing. In 2006, she received the Grand prix
triennal of the French Community of Belgium in
recognition of the quality of her work. The Astrid
Lindgren Memorial Award, which covers the
entirety of an artist’s output in children’s literature,
was presented to her in 2010. Her album Annie
du Lac, published in 2009 by Pastel (l'École des
loisirs) received the Baobab Prize at the Montreuil
Children’s Book and Press Fair the same year.
Most recently published album: Mère
Méduse, l’École des loisirs, Autumn 2014
ENCOUNTERS WITH EUROPEAN AUTHORS
À LA GUINGUETTE LITTÉRAIRE (MAISON LOSSEAU)
25.04 / 09.05 / 23.05 / 06.06 / 20.06 / 04.07 / 29.08 / 05.09 / 12.09 / 19.09.2015
The ‘Librairie du 100 livres’: ten associated bookshops – eight in Belgium (Polar&Co and André Leto in
Mons; Point Virgule in Namur, L’île aux trésors in Liège, Ptyx, Tropismes and Joli Mai in Brussels), one in
Switzerland (La librairie du midi in Oron near Lausanne) and one in France (Les Oiseaux rares in Paris),
plus of course Emmanuel El Regniez, the local bookseller! Ten different bookshops, each of which takes
its own approach to setting up an exceptional encounter between the reader and contemporary literature.
Each bookseller has chosen a European author, so for ten Saturdays literary Europe will come and meet its
readership at Losseau. One particular project will also involve the Mons bookshops Scientia and L’oiseaulire…no, delete that last sentence! In a field or a forest, for a nap, in a butcher’s shop… what encounters!
Kitty Crowther, Claro and Reinhard Jirgl are already definites.
26.09.15
> 27.09.15
PETITS B(R)OLS ET BOUTS DE SCOTCH
MAISON LOSSEAU
A workshop for children and adults doubling up as Sunday brunch encounters with artists who will subvert
the principle of the writing workshop. There’ll be plenty of fun at the Open Air Café: cut-outs, collages
and doodles! Here, we don’t mince our words – we make them up as we tuck into a croissant. Amusing
workshops for around fifteen participants, with ‘limited editions’ to take home.
25.09.15
JAN VAN DEN EEDEN
SOIREE MUSICALE
MAISON LOSSEAU
19:00
While Georges Rodenbach was writing Bruges-la-Morte, his friend Jan Van den Eeden was composing
some sumptuous symbolist pages that his great-great-grandson retrieves from oblivion at Maison Losseau.
Winner of the Prix de Rome in 1869, Jan Van den Eeden was appointed director of the Academy of Music
in Mons in 1878.
UNPLUGGED EVENING
MUSIC MAISON LOSSEAU
02.05 / 16.05 / 27.06 / 11.07 / 18.07 / 25.07.2015
On Saturday, at dusk, the lights will be lit at the literary Open Air Café and music will gently rock to sleep
the words that have been dancing all day. Musicians join forces with poets, and for six evenings invite us to
dance and dream.
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EMILE SUR PAYSAGE
LITERATURE / ROUTE HONNELLES
At his summer residence, ‘Le Caillou qui bique’,
Flemish poet Emile Verhaeren received some of
the greatest writers of his time: the likes of Maeterlinck and Zweig. A path of stones engraved with his
poems passes through the woods, where the artist
Dimitri Wazemsky will install a remarkable sculpture
in keeping with the poet’s words…
IN THE CONTEXT OF FESTIVAL AU CARRÉ
THE POETICAL SQUARE
LITERATURE COUR DU CARRÉ DE MONS
Music, sculpture, installations and texts: that’s
poetry in the square! It violates the prohibitions
and flouts taboos, because here everything is
mixed up. Mike Schmidt resamples the texts of
German painter and sculptor Kurt Schwitters, Roma
Napoli and JJ Dow Jones from the group Dix/10
create a poetic currency whose new value is the
gift, Brice Catherin and Karelle Ménine design
an installation/show which examines linguistic
flaws, the unpredictable singer Arno unleashes
his imagination, accompanied by a surprise
guest… words and sounds blend together from all
directions and from all over the world.
READERS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
LITERATURE / WORKSHOP ARSONIC
Our last weekend at the Maison Losseau will focus
on the digital reader. Not a forum or a lecture
series, but an original encounter open to all – the
specialists and the merely curious – to try to answer
the questions that the digital tool poses for the
literary world…
In partnership with Pilen (Interprofessional partnership of the book
and digital writing - Brussels)
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IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN ILLUSTRATED
BOOK FESTIVAL
MONS/MONTIS
12 LETTERS FROM ANNE HERBAUTS
YOUTH / PARTICIPATION / LITERATURE BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE JEMAPPES
Anne Herbauts is running two projects in Mons!
One is an educational package on the slag heap
that enables you to walk around it freely, armed
with a magical remedy. The other is twelve letters –
surprised, sewn, picked, chewed, addressed to Mons,
exhibited at the European Illustrated Book Festival.
ANNE HERBAUTS
Anne Herbauts was born somewhere in
Belgium in 1975 and studied illustration and
comic strip art at the Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
She has created over thirty albums and been
translated into Korean, Japanese, Spanish,
Italian, Dutch and German. She received the
Prix Baobab in 2003 for Et trois corneilles?…
and the Prix Sorcières 2012 for De quelle
couleur est le vent?
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YESMINE SLIMAN-LAWTON
Though originally from La Louvière,
Yesmine Sliman-Lawton grew up in Mons
and then completed a Master’s degree in
interior design there. She worked initially in
Brussels and later in Sydney. But it was in
Mons that in 2006 she launched OKIDOKI,
her creative graphic design agency. In July
2013, she was approached by the Mons
2015 Foundation and asked to develop fashion and design projects.
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The fashion section of Mons 2015 could hope for no better ambassador than accomplice artist Jean-Paul Lespagnard. In action in the opening ceremony, in creative workshops open to young and old alike and in a summer exhibition with a Mexican theme,
Jean-Paul will delight us all year with his expertise, talent and off-beat humour.
Following in his wake will be numerous creative workers from Mons and the local
region, who will have plenty of opportunities to get themselves noticed during urban
events such as the fashion and design weeks.
The opening of the Maison du Design in early 2015 will lend support to this process
by providing a superb backdrop for their work. Another new creativity space, the Centre
Keramis, dedicated to ceramics, will also open in La Louvière in spring 2015.
What’s more, Mons will play host to Europe within its walls – after all, you would
expect nothing less from the European Capital of Culture. During the Home and Away
event devoted to Milan, fashion and design will be very much in the forefront, and we will
experience at first hand the very latest developments in one of the sector’s capitals; meanwhile, the World Craft Council will host the European Summit of Applied Arts. And last but
not least, Grand Hornu Images offers us the first retrospective of the fabulous designer
Jasper Morrison.
Thus there will be a rich and varied offering, with a uniform underlying aim of enhancing the life of the community and individual well-being in Mons.
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JEAN-PAUL LESPAGNARD
Jean-Paul Lespagnard was born in
Liège in 1979. Far removed from Belgium’s
prestigious fashion schools, and with a
qualification in fashion design from Château Massart (IFAPME, Liège), he began his
career as a fashion photographer for Belgian
magazines.
2008 marked the beginning of a long
and meteoric rise to success and recognition:
Jean-Paul Lespagnard won two awards at the
prestigious International Festival of Fashion
in Hyères with a collection on the theme
‘fries and rodeo clowns’. Delphine Lehericey
devoted a documentary to him, co-produced
by Entre chien et loup and the RTBF. The
French singer Yelle was one of the first to
put her trust in this young Belgian designer,
wearing his creations in her video ‘Ce Jeu’.
The great American choreographer Meg
Stuart was also an early believer in his talent,
and gave him a free hand at her show Bless
in 2007. In 2013, the choreographer Pierre
Droulers commissioned him to create the
costumes for his creation Soleils.
Today, the young Liégeois has
launched his own brand and runs his own
studio on Rue de l’Ourthe in Brussels. He
has caused a stir in the world of youthful
creativity with whimsical collections inspired
by cowgirls called Jacqueline or ‘Gilles de
Binche’ carnival figures in an African version,
which he presents in the trendiest venues
in Paris. Since 2011, these collections have
invariably received acclaim from influential
figures, including the highly respected Suzy
Menkes, fashion columnist for the New York
Times, who says that Jean-Paul has the ability to produce garments which are ‘attractive,
wearable and affordable’. A claim he is happy
to endorse.
Jean-Paul Lespagnard
© LAETITIA BICA
Running workshops for children,
apprenticing as a DJ in Brussels’ nightlife
scene… his ambitions are limitless. Jean-Paul
Lespagnard, the complete artist, is full of surprises. As of now, Mons will become his raw
material and the people of Mons his co-workers. And no one knows exactly what will come
of it. But nobody can be in any doubt that the
result will be dazzling and joyful.
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associated artist
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IN THE CONTEXT OF THE OPENING CEREMONY
PONCHOS
FASHION MONS INTRAMUROS
FREE
As soon as you set foot in Mons, don one of the 18,000 reflective ponchos cut out of survival blankets.
Have no fear – your survival isn’t under threat! Just shine with a thousand lights, illuminating the city like
18,000 mirror balls at a gargantuan open-air nightclub. And the theme of the evening?
Why, illumination, of course!
ÀPD
12.14
GET READY !
WORKSHOP FONDATION MONS 2015
5€
Prepare for the opening ceremony and customise your reflective poncho, made from survival blanket material,
or your original metallic accessory. Cut-outs, collages, assemblages: let your creativity sparkle all night.
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FASHION / WORKSHOP FONDATION MONS 2015
5€
Attend a fashion design workshop led by designer Jean-Paul Lespagnard, during which you can transform
garments with a few snips to give them a new lease of life, or produce unique creations in order to prepare
your original outfit in which to dance in the balera at the Milan Home and Away on 16 May 2015.
20.04.15
>13.06.15
SCARVES, JEAN-PAUL LESPAGNARD STYLE
FASHION / YOUTH DYNAMUSÉE
Scarves are one of the key elements in designer Jean-Paul Lespagnard’s work. Rich in colour and detail,
they appear in each of his collections. Dynamusée, the educational service of the Museum Cluster of the
City of Mons, will run a workshop based on the creation of large scarves designed “in the style of”, on the
theme of the Ducasse de Mons. You will then have a chance to discover these scarves at the Maison Folie
all summer.
18.07.15
>23.08.15
TILL WE DROP – JEAN-PAUL LESPAGNARD
EXHIBITION / FASHION MAISON FOLIE / ESPACE DES POSSIBLES
FREE
Jean-Paul Lespagnard, our accomplice artist, invites you to explore his creative process. Inspired by his collection of the same name of 2014, the exhibition evokes the exuberant life of the grand hotels of the Riviera
Maya in Mexico and echoes a certain idea of an artificial paradise – a euphoric world of transgression and
freedom. Jean-Paul Lespagnard, disguised as a bee, takes you on a journey interspersed with devices depicting the rites, habits and customs of the impulsive tourist, liberated from the routines of daily life.
During the exhibition, four afternoon workshops will be led by Jean-Paul Lespagnard. A memorable creative moment for all the family on Saturday or Sunday afternoon at the Maison Folie.
In collaboration with La Galerie des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris.
20.07.15
>24.07.15
SUMMER COURSE WITH JEAN-PAUL LESPAGNARD AT DYNAMUSEE
“DESIGN & CO”
FASHION / WORKSHOP DYNAMUSÉE
In collaboration with Jean-Paul Lespagnard, Dynamusée is running a summer course for children aged 8 to
13 years. Children will be able to try their hand at customising different clothing accessories. At the end of
the course, their work will be exhibited.
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LUMEÇON / INSPIRATION
MUSTAPHA ATAMAN / ISABELLE CHEVALIER / CORENTINE DELEPINE / ISABELLE GIROUX / DIANE MARIAGE / MATTHIAS NEUKENS / ROMINA REMMO / GAËLLE SOUFLET / YESMINE SLIMAN LAWTON
FASHION
Under the artistic direction of Yesmine SlimanLawton and fashion designer Isabelle Chevalier,
a group of creative workers from Mons work on a
unique fashion creation that alludes to the folklore
of Mons, and more specifically to the combat known
as ‘Lumeçon’. This rich and subtle reinterpretation is
developed in close collaboration with Joëlle Wattier,
director of the Lumeçon, and the Doudou Museum.
MUSTAPHA ATAMAN
Mustapha Ataman is a fashion
designer. He graduated in fashion and
garment design in 2008, and completed
an internship with designer Delphine Murat.
He was then hired as an assistant to the
designer David Szeto. Mustapha believes it is
important to ‘offer a product in keeping with
the times without being a prisoner of trends’.
Lumeçon / Inspiration
© YESMINE SLIMAN-LAWTON
ISABELLE GIROUX
Isabelle Giroux is a 29-year-old Canadian designer. She attracted notice in 2007
by winning the first prize at the Biennale
Internationale du Lin de Portneuf, which
brought her to Brussels. In 2013, she reached
the finals of the ‘Habillez An Pierlé’ competition organised by Elle magazine in Belgium.
Simultaneously, she launched her own readyto-wear collection. Isabelle’s style is modern
and feminine.
ISABELLE CHEVALIER
After 25 years of training and professional experience in fashion, textiles, theatre,
teaching fashion design, model making
and sewing, Isabelle Chevalier launched
Serendipity&Me: a café/sewing/cultural
centre open to all as a place to meet people,
gain inspiration and make new discoveries
in clothes-making and culture in Mons. To
expand the range of possibilities, Isabelle
and Corentine Delepine are setting up Be
Crafty, which runs creative workshops.
Currently, Isabelle is continuing to teach at
EFPme in Drogenbos.
CORENTINE DELEPINE
Corentine Delepine was trained as
an art historian. While doing various jobs in
the arts sector in Quebec and Belgium, she
received training in interior design and dressmaking. Her taste for interior design prompted
her to start the blog Slow living and to set
up various partnerships with interior design
professionals (fashion photography, creating
backdrops, etc). In September 2014, she
launched Be Crafty (creative workshops) with
Isabelle Chevalier, in which they share their
passion for creativity and sewing. Corentine is
currently continuing her training in dress-making, with a view to obtaining a degree.
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ROMINA REMMO
Romina Remmo is a visual artist. She
studied at the Institute of Arts and Crafts
in Namur, and went on to take a Master’s
degree in painting at Arts² in Mons in 2005.
Her work takes many forms: painting, photography, drawing, writing, performance and
sewn installations.
DIANE MARIAGE
Diane Mariage is a designer. She
trained in textile creation and fashion design
with the designer Akira Minagawa in Tokyo.
She has also studied fashion illustration in
Florence. Since 2013, Diane has created her
own design consultancy workshop, specialising in outdoor sports. She devises collections
for sports brands such as Agiva, Browning
and Berghen.
GAËLLE SOUFLET
Mons fashion designer Gaëlle Souflet
is participating in Mons 2015 with two
projects: Hiromi Hotel, a textile work, and a
fashion show on the theme of living in style.
Educated at the Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer
in Brussels, she has worked as a costume
designer and dresser for the Le Manège
Theatre and Maison de Folie in Mons.
MATTHIAS NEUKENS
Matthias Neukens recently became
interested in fashion design. It all started
in 2013 with his selection for the ‘Customisez-moi’ competition for self-taught artists.
He then created Cyclique, his first collection.
The Cyclique workshop will be launched
in 2015, and its main idea is recycling.
Matthias believes that ‘fashion is an eternal
new beginning, and creativity alone is at the
cutting edge’.
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MONS FASHION & DESIGN WEEKS
FASHION / WORKSHOPS / PARTICIPATION
The non-profit organisation Piétonnier Montois ASBL
will develop the project in three section, so that
merchants can take part if they wish, whatever their
field of business.
1. The fashion section, with SHOW MODE:
Three or four venues in the city centre will be used
to set up fashion shows, presenting the ready-towear and/or accessory collections of city centre
merchants, as well as original work by young
designers.
2. The design section, developed in
collaboration with the Maison du Design: DESIGN’IN
SHOPS, a discovery route of original creative
work in shops in Mons city centre, highlighting
designer-merchant pairings, and organised by the
Maison du Design, a venue dedicated to design
which aims to raise general awareness of the
economic and social contribution made by design.
The purpose of Design’In Shops, as its name
suggests, is to encourage professional exchanges
between merchants and designers. The route will
spotlight firstly the shops of Mons and secondly
the contribution of design in shops. The result of
various partnerships (the creation of original shop
displays, interior design, graphic design, temporary
installations, furniture, etc.) will be on view for the
general public. More than just a route, Design’In
Shops is a competition in which the top pairs will be
rewarded.
3. Thematic workshops. To involve
merchants, various workshops will be organised
within the shops. They will be led by professionals
in each field and scheduled throughout the
fortnight. Proposed workshop subjects: ‘LITTLE
DESIGNERS’ and ‘LITTLE FASHION DESIGNERS’,
‘LITTLE RECYCLERS’, ‘BEAUTY & WELLNESS’,
‘FASHION AND DESIGN IN BOOKS’, and ‘OPEN
WORKSHOPS’. Clothing, jewellery, hats, bags
...: designers and accessory makers within and
outside the city will open their studios to the public.
‘CREATIVITY WORKSHOPS’ (for children and adults)
led by young artists will be organised in specialist
shops that are willing to host them. ‘DRESSING
THE GUARDHOUSE MONKEY COMPETITION’:
a competition will be launched among the Mons
design schools and city centre merchants to create
an outfit for Mons’ iconic monkey statue. During
the two weeks, the monkey will wear the winning
design, and the other outfits will be worn by plaster
monkeys placed in the windows of participating
merchants.
Mons Fashion & Design weeks
© YESMINE LAWTON
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PROFESSIONALS’ DAY
25.09.15 - 10:00 > 17:00
CONFERENCE/ROUND TABLE
+ PARTICIPATION WORKSHOPS
18:00 EXHIBITION VERNISSAGE
GENERAL PUBLIC WEEKEND
26.09.15 AND 27.09.15 - 10 AM ONWARDS
PARTICIPATION WORKSHOPS –
DISCUSSIONS – ENCOUNTERS
EXHIBITION
26.09.15 > 13.11.15
SHOPSKE
EXHIBITION / FASHION MAISON DU DESIGN
FREE
The Maison du Design invites young Belgian
designers to express their vision of Belgian fashion.
Jean-Paul Lespagnard, Mons 2015 accomplice
artist, will be the exhibition’s artistic director.
INNOVATION AND READY MADE
CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP / EXHIBITION MAISON DU DESIGN
The purpose of Innovation & Ready Made, a festival
organised by the Maison du Design, is to raise
questions about our habits and lifestyles in a society
of over-consumption and over-production, in light of
emerging modes of production and developments
in techniques for manufacturing objects. It invites us
to reflect on the conservation and promotion of our
heritage, expertise and products, and will stimulate
discussion on new production models, responsible
innovation, sustainable development and the
role we can play in our environment as citizens,
designers and students.
During three days (25-27 September 2015), various
lectures and workshops, in partnership with
Giovanna Massoni, Studio Simple, Atelier Blink, the
students of ARTS2 and others will place design, the
public, businesses and design professionals at the
centre of this issue.
An exhibition presenting the results of a
consideration of design as a vector in a circular
economy, on local production and resources,
on the concept of resilience and on designers’
social responsibility can be viewed from 26 to 13
November 2015. The aim is to get us to re-examine
our habits and consumption patterns and improve
user convenience by promoting exchanges based
on aspects regarded as negative and developing
positive innovative solutions for them.
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A unique site for exhibitions and artistic residencies
will be added to the Belgian cultural landscape in
spring 2015: the Keramis Centre for Ceramics. On
the historic site of the Boch earthenware factory, the
art centre opens its doors with On fire, a contemporary art exhibition dedicated to fire: an essential
factor in ceramics and a powerful symbol of our
collective imagination. The Belgian ceramicist Emile
Desmedt will create a monumental work there using
the furnace sculpture technique. The work, called
Imago, will then remain in this new arts centre.
OBJECT MONS 2015 - ALAIN BERTEAU
On the occasion of Mons 2015, Keramis will also
oversee the creation of a functional object that will
be added to its collection. Devised by designer
Alain Berteau (Objekten), it will be made in the
workshops of the Centre for Ceramics by Emile
Desmedt and Luigi Restaino, the last surviving
mould-maker from Boch. This project also prefigures the reopening in La Louvière of an art and
ceramic design studio by 2016-2017.
Emile Desmedt’s work and the creation of Alain Berteau’s object are
co-produced by the Centre Keramis and the Mons 2015 Foundation.
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JASPER MORRISON
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Jasper Morrison (London, 1959) is a designer
respected and celebrated around the world. GrandHornu is thrilled to host his first-ever retrospective.
This major event will bring together key moments in
the 35-year career of this subtle and playful master
of his profession, across furniture, kitchenware
and home electronics. These pieces will be
accompanied by archival material in a specially
designed installation that stays true to Jasper’s
principle of beguiling simplicity.
A project of Grand Hornu Images, Province of Hainaut in co-production with the Mons Foundation. With the support of the Federation
Wallonia-Brussels.
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EXHIBITION / DESIGN WORLD CRAFTS COUNCIL
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Firmly based in Mons, the French-speaking Belgian
section of the World Crafts Council (WCC) brings
together over 200 Belgian designers and promotes
contemporary applied arts. In 2015, it will hold a
European Summit of Applied Arts, an international
cultural project consisting of five main events. The
launch of the third European Prize for Applied Arts
will open this ambitious programme: a triennial
competition open to designers from all over Europe,
in all applied art and craft disciplines. The winning
works will be exhibited in the Main Hall of the
Former Slaughterhouse in Mons throughout the
three months of the event.
In late October, the WCC will also put Mons on
the international stage by hosting the General
Assembly of the WCC-Europe and organising an
international colloquium on the applied arts. In a
spirit of openness to new directions, this ambitious
programme will include a festival of film screenings,
master classes at the Sars-Poteries Glass Museum
(Maubeuge) and an exhibition of Belgian ceramics
at the La Piscine museum in Roubaix.
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co-production with the Mons 2015 Foundation and in partnership
with the WCC-Europe, with the support of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels, the City of Mons and Design Flanders.
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PASCAL KEISER
Pascal Keiser has been manager of
Technocité in Mons since 2007. This educational center has been innovating in a way
that is recognized on European level. Pascal
has been defending the motto "Where Technology meets Culture" for Mons 2015 since
2005, as much as the concept to develop the
region as a Digital Innovation Valley
He is project manager of the digital
programme of Mons 2015 since 2013 and is
invloved in other European projects touching
culture, digital technology and education,
such as Cité numérique in Bordeaux, Fabrica
Numérique, Culture Tech and la Manufacture/
Collectif contemporain in Avignon.
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The Digital Innovation Valley is at the core of Mons 2015. It began when Google
selected Mons to base its European data center, investing some €450 million.
This generated enough energy to attract such enterprises as Microsoft to rapidly form
a mini Silicon Valley in Mons. There are now more than a hundred such firms involved in
digital innovation, some of which are known in their field in Europe and around the world,
totaling a thousand direct high technology jobs.
This represents a remarkable economic and commercial growth for a mid-size city.
It is coupled with a unique effort to make the city’s population digitally knowledgeable,
thanks to the TechnocITé lifelong training center which offers 300 courses to 5,000 people
each year.
This allows local entrepreneurs to hire local staff, at the same time giving the opportunity
to the young generations to look forward to a career in the digital economy right here at
home.
Where technology meets culture… has thus become one of first gambles of the future
European Capital of Culture. The goal is not technology for its own sake. The goal is to
break the digital barriers between different generations and social classes. We want to
create a bond between them, boost empowerment and invent new artistic and economic
models.. Starting in 2005 and intensifying toward 2015, breakthrough pilot projects such
as MEDIA DJ, Mons Street ReView and Café Europa help modify our understanding and
use of the new technologies.
A real social and cultural lever, the digital world, as Mons 2015 sees it, stimulates
questions on our European identity, digital identity and the role of the creative industries
which can only thrive through a myriad of partnerships, be they local, regional, national
or even international, and new associated governance.
This myriad of partnerships is reflected in the creation of Café Europa, a real network
of connected European Cultural Capitals, united under the hashtags #CaféEuropa.
Digital technologies open a wide range of possibilities. They give a new meaning
to invention and entrepreneurship.
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Mons 2015 presents a digital approach to the city and the title of European Capital
of Culture, for a variety of projects and productions at Mundaneum or elsewhere
Mons Street ReView offers an original visit of the city online from 24.01.2015. This playful
visit of the city invites you to discover the city in real life. It is a good example of the
ambition of Mons 2015 to present digital art to a large public, with very accessible projects
like Street reView or Café Europa, but also with projects that are more avant-garde.
Mons 2015, where technology meets culture.
Café Europa and Mundaneum will be a good spots to start discovering Mons and its digital
projects.
Café Europa, juxtaposes a coffee of the 21st century, a training center, a “fab-lab” and a
wall of screens connected to 10 European cities. It is the ideal place to understand and
grasp the technological revolution that puts the world upside down. With enthusiasm! If the
world changes, there has been no long such a beautiful opportunity to create and reinvent
the way we live together. At Café Europa, the value of do-it-yourself and open-source, and
the chance of redefine all social ties are perceived. Digital art is both present with the
starting point of a course of works between augmented reality, remote experience and
direct interaction. Smart!
Mundaneum reopens in the summer of 2015 with the exhibition “Mapping the world”
An interactive travel to the heart of the universe of information: from pioneers of data
visualization to contemporary artists who take a new look at the complexity of today’s
world…
The 2015 edition VIA festival from 12.03.15 until 25.03.15. will offer a big theme about the
New cinema with an exhibition, 3D movies , creations from Fabrice Murgia, Michèle Noiret
and Jean-Michel Van den Eeyden about digital memories and identity, a family weekend
with selected interactive shows, Opening of Cafe Europa and his digital art propositions…
The digital programme takes place in different contexts and environments through a large
number of digital partnerships.
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REVIEWED AND AMENDED!
WITHOUT BLURRED FACES!
Have you ever taken the risk of Googling your street name
to see your house, your street at 360° and recognized that one
of your neighbours was hiding behind one of the blurred faces?
Now add ‘Mons’ in the search engine and you’ll be likely to have
quite a big surprise! The French X/tnt Collective has indeed used
the very same technology of immersive numeric mapping…
only to better use it distort its original purpose. With Mons
Street reView, ‘Lady Bug’ captures happenings with her camera
strapped on a kart: locals from Mons in unlikely poses and garbs,
the lot over 10 km of Mons streets! The shootings, made in 2014,
already were a dominant theme in the European media thanks to
what was seen as a subversive twist to typified Mons 2015 public
space interventions: the staging of daily life by unpredictable
artists, the questioning of new technologies and the participation
of the inhabitants of Mons. No blurring, guaranteed.
En 2015, vous vous promènerez
dans Mons revue et corrigée.
Création X/tnt
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HACKING AND RESHAPING STREET
VIEW INTO A SOCIAL INNOVATION
PROJECT
Between May and October 2014, a very
special vehicle equipped with a 360° camera
passed through the streets of Mons to capture
a series of happenings enacted by the people of
Mons. At the crazy rate of one or more shootings
per day, Mons Street re-View has rethought the
city centre. The challenge? To create interactive
views of city walks in addition to Google’s
“street views” and to invite the inhabitants of
Mons to participate in the representations of
their city. Each street has been depicted with
the inhabitants : magic animals on the rue de
la Biche (Doe Street), a shower of ping-pong
balls on the rue de la Raquette (Raquet Street),
a meeting between Angels and miners on rue
Spira, a moss party on the Place du Marché aux
Herbes, (Herb Market Square), etc.
“It was important for the inhabitants to
participate in the presentation of their city, instead
of being blurred and disembodied, for reasons
of image rights”, say Antonia Taddei and Ludovic
Nobileau, the designers of this very special project.
A CITY PORTRAIT 2.0
Mons Street re-View proposes to revive an
old cartographic tradition where maps were not
only tools drawn up based on the latest scientific
and technological knowledge, but also real artistic
creations. The fact that these maps were entitled
“city portraits” in the Renaissance proves the
importance of these works which represented
the city. So that’s why we wanted to update these
portraits, in the light of the Internet and connectivity.
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EVERONE REPRESENTED
To bring this project to fruition, a call for
participation was made not only to the inhabitants
(all generations) but also to the various “bodies”
making up the city: the trades, the companies,
the firemen, the hospital, the university, the schools,
the prison, without forgetting the dustmen, the
roadsweepers, the gardeners, etc. With them, more
than 10.000 metres of the streets of Mons have
been transformed for a period of several weeks
of shooting necessary to take the 360° views.
HOME MADE!
The development of the software part was
carried out in workshops organised by the training
centre TechnocITy. The participants had access to
an innovative training on the best technology in
terms of digital mapping and 360° video.
UNIQUE VISIBILITY FOR THE CITY
Beyond the collective performance and its
symbolism, the participative map of the city offers
a unique visibility of the City on Internet. It can be
perpetuated with Google Maps technology and its
Streetview API as a de facto standard for immersive
digital cartography.
Mons Street re-View is a co-production of Mons 2015 X/tnt in
collaboration with TechnocITé
The COMPAGNIE X/TNT is specialised
in street pop-up actions, high-impact operations in public, as well as the search for new
formats for theatrical experimentation. Around
these participatory and special activities in the
urban universe, X/tnt demands a reappropriation of the public space and a reinvention
of the city.
The Xtnt company is supported by the French Ministry of
Culture, France (DRAC Île de France and DGCA)
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Prototype Café Europa
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As hyper-connectivity in the civil society
can end up finally in separating people, Mons
2015 is strongly supporting the return of real
social contact. Indeed, the more technologies
evolve, the more people feel the need to return to
what is essential, direct human contact, and not
only virtual connections. Is there a better place
than ‘a café’ to renew these links and rebuild the
world?
The virtual world has evolved beyond
computers. Mons 2015 will attempt to bring it back
into the real world, as a means of social bonding.
In the Café Europa.
‘The café’, local bar or pub, linked to the
industrial revolution, was in Belgium an engine of
social integration, a rare place where aristocrats,
middle classes and workers would mingle in a
happy atmosphere, a very Belgian melting pot,
a social haven par excellence. We must ask the
question today whether ‘the café’ still performs a
strong social function or even works as a territorial
marker. It is still a place to invent new models.
Mons 2015 hopes to bring back these
emblematic places for meetings and exchanges
and reinstate their stated role through the digital
dimensions of accessibility, conviviality and fun.
Instead of providing a venue for card
tournaments, gossiping or bingo games, the Café
Europa aims at understanding the digital world.
It is a place where one can indeed have a drink,
but also manipulate the new technologies such
as 3D printing, networking and learn from other
Europeans.
CAFÉ EUROPA
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GRATUIT
Café Europa is a concept combining local
development and European dynamics. It is a
network of places that are interconnected both
physically and virtually. Even if they are modular
constructions (see further), all Cafés Europa share
common features: state of the art technological
equipment (communicating wall, 3D printer, laser
cutting, CNC, etc.). They also share the values of
sustainable development. The Cafés Europa are
built from recycled materials such as palettes and
containers, etc.
More than a café, Café Europa is a new
way of reaching out to others in a world where
technology and life are one and where the word
“network” will fully mean what it says: meeting,
sharing and learning by doing.
Café Europa wants to boost the local
ecosystem by offering a new space for cultural,
technological and individual emancipation. This
is a fertile soil for the emergence of new ways of
learning where technological tools become again
vectors of social links.
Just like FabLabs, Fabrication Laboratories,
Café Europa is a space where one can get on with
one’s own project, thanks to 3D printers or sewing
machines, and exchange ideas with others who
share the same interests, work together and learn.
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SOCIAL INNOVATION, EUROPEAN
CITIZENSHIP, A NEW INDUSTRIAL
ECONOMY BASED ON CREATIVITY
CAFÉ CORNER
The Café Corner with its self-service kitchen is
where activities are organized. Each day has a
specific target audience, each week a specific offer,
each month a chosen international partner.
Of course there is enough joyful flexibility to
organize Focus happenings or to pay attention to
trending topics. You are invited to join the activities
at all time.
EUROPA LAB
Europa Lab is the FabLab of Café Europa, a space
for meetings and collaborative creative ideas
which allows, amongst other things, the production
of unique objects (decoration, prostheses, tools
etc.). All kinds of tools will be made available,
notably CNC machine tools, for the design and
manufacturing of objects. The CaféLab is accessible
by appointment and is targeted at entrepreneurs,
designers, artists, handymen, students, families and
hackers of all types: those who want to progress
more rapidly from the concept phase to prototyping,
from prototyping to development and from
development to deployment, etc.
EUROPA WALL
The ‘Europa wall’ will be the central feature of
Café Europa. This human size screen (3m x 2m)
allows direct contact with the members of the other
Cafés Europa in Plzen, Sarajevo, Kaliningrad, San
Sebastian, Liège, Linz, Paris, Montreal, Tokyo. It is
both a window to the world and a local hub that will
host a number of cultural events shared between
several European cities.
These interconnected cities with a rich local cultural
heritage and deep roots will become entry gates or
“ports” through which social or cultural information
can navigate. To paraphrase Deleuze and Guattari,
the Cafés Europa network will form a “rhizome”, a
decentralised infrastructure, mirroring the Internet.
CAFÉ EUROPA
AT EUROPEAN PARTNERS
For the first time in the history of European
Capitals of Culture, a connected network of 10
venues across the EU is created, inventing a new
form of public spaces and practices for the future.
PSome of the 7 containers presented in Mons in
2014 in a prototype version are to be shipped to Riga,
Plzen, Sarajevo, Rome, Paris, Montreal or Kaliningrad.
For the first time in the history of European Capitals
of Culture a real networkproject is created and united
under the hashtag #CaféEuropa 10 Cafés Europa
will open in January 2015 in the four corners of
Europe: Kaliningrad in Russia, San Sebastian in Spain,
Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Riga in Leetonia,
Pilsen in the Czech Republic, Linz in Austria, Rome
and Sienne in Italy, Paris, Strasbourg and Avignon in
France, but also in Tokyo and Montreal, all partner
cities with Mons 2015. Connected through the
EuropaWall, the Cafés Europa nourish the utopia
of people coming closer together and the emergence
of a newly shared common European culture.
MODULAR
Each Café Europa is unique and adapted to local
circumstances and constraints. The concept must be
reinvented in function of the physical location where
it is installed: a Café Europa can be set up in a preexisting location or somewhere in the urban space.
It is where its mobile and modular version, made from
redesigned containers, finds its niche for any length
of time, short or long, in the heart of a neighbourhood.
This nourishes the idea of a space which is accessible
to all, not necessarily close to urban centers, and
away from the classic cultural hotspot or temples.
Partenaires : CRVENA + Institut Français, Sarajevo, BosniaHerzegovina ; Plzen 2015 - European capital of culture, Plzen, Czech
Republic ; ArtVorota + NCCA, Kaliningrad, Russia ; Ars Electronica,
Linz, Austria ; Rixc, Riga, Latvia ; ROMAEuropa Festival, Rome,
Italy ; Siena 2019, Sienne, Italie ; Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain ;
Ososphère, Strasbourg, France ; Reciprocity, Liège, Belgium ; Le
Manège Maubeuge ; La Maison des Arts de Créteil ; lille3000, France ;
Institut Français, Tokyo, Japan ; Elektra festival, Montréal, Canada.
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EXHIBITION / DIGITAL
Take a taxi ride to the end of the world or watch a sunset in Japan without leaving Mons : this is the type of
original project, proposals for digital art, also offered by the Café Europa.
Our central point is Café Europa @Mundaneum in which we will invite European artists and curators to
develop and create new projects using Café Europa platform as a creative tool: Europa Wall, connecting
with a dozen other European cities, 3D printing, inventive cuisine, Fablab, Sustainable and responsible
development, Wikipedia labs, Open-source and peer-to-peer approaches, frames 3.0...are starting points
for a new European creative forum.
A continuous exhibition programme will take place from Café Europa. To interact with the exhibition the
following hashtags can be used by the public and curators: #CaféEuropa.
Curators and partners:
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Ars Electronica : le principal festival digital d’Europe basé à Linz (AU) – www.aec.at
NCCA : The branch of Russian Ministry of culture for contempary arts in Kaliningrad (RU) – www.ncca.ru
RIXC : digital media center in Riga (LT) – www.rixc.lv
MAC Créteil : Exit Festival / Charles Carcopino curator (FR) – www.maccreteil.com
YCAM : main digital art center in Japon (JP) – www.ycam.jp/en
Elektra : main digital art festival in Canada (CA) – www.elektrafestival.ca
4AM www.forum4am.cz (Brno, CZ)
Europalia Turquie – www.europalia.be
And local partners : Transcultures, Art²…
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VIA
FESTIVAL
For more than 20 years the VIA
International Festival has been breaking down
artistic and geographical boundaries, in Mons
and Maubeuge. The festival has established
itself in Europe as a unique meetingplace where
performing arts and new technologies converge
and where international theatres, transboundary
professionals and audiences meet each other.
In 2015, New Cinemas will be the central
theme of the festival... Indeed, the 7th Art will appear
in and out everywhere, in all art forms and shapes.
Film will be a source of inspiration; new surfaces will
be covered by projections, in interdisciplinary ways.
It will open up new dimensions which the arts are
incorporating more and more into movie techniques
in their creative processes. In light of this trend, the
2015 edition of VIA will offer twice as many creations
as usual – Children of Nowhere, the second part
of Ghost Road, the theatrical road-movie of Fabrice
Murgia; the dance-thriller, Radioscopies, by Michèle
Noiret; the slam/mapping movie by Jean-Michel Van
den Eeyden, Amnesia, about digital memories and
identity, a special exhibition about this theme ; and
an amazing 3D movies festival for the whole family.
THEATRE LE MANÈGE
MAISON FOLIE
MUNDANEUM
MONS INTRA MUROS
THEATRE ROYAL
MAUBEUGE
The European Capital of Culture is also the
opportunity for the Festival to take on some new
challenges, as for example with Café Europa, which
will be inaugurated during the Festival. We should
also mention the two digital and interactive shows by
the TPO company - Bleu and Babayaga –, planned
during the family weekend at the Maison Folie.
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Des collaborations rapprochées sont
menées avec le Microsoft Innovation Center
(Projet Tai-Chi), Numediart / Umons (Citylight /
Europa Mur / La Voix des Anges), Transcultures (Transnumeriques et City Sonic), Pôle
Muséal de Mons / Artothèque (6 nouveaux
musées avec contenu digital et technologique fort).
Depuis 2013, Mons 2015 soutient
également des initiatives innovantes, des
festivals, des organisations axées sur les
nouvelles technologies: KIKK, Idrops,
La Quinzaine Digital, Protopitch…
City Sonic - Mauro Vitturini Tentative
d'épuisement d'un lieu (détail)
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The collegiate church of Sainte-Waudru becomes
a multimedia laboratory for the discovery of gothic
architecture! This collaborative project of Mons
2015, the University of Mons and the Church
Council of Sainte-Waudru, aspires to "see beyond
the walls" by exploiting the extraordinary richness
of the building. Thanks to digital technology and
geolocalisation, by creating a video game to
discover the treasures of the collegiate church,
by using digital tablets, composed of 12 locations in
the collegiate church of Sainte-Waudru, it enables
the visitor to discover, via enhanced reality, the
fascinating details and architecture of the collegiate
church.
Supported by the Association Sainte-Waudru , the University of
MONS and the Church Council of Sainte-Waudru.
MUNDANEUM - MAPPING KNOWLEDGE
EXHIBITION / WORKSHOPS / TALKS / EDUCATION
MUNDANEUM - MONS
TUE. > SUN. 13:00 > 18:00
THU. 13:00 - 20:00
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Dubbed the “paper Google” (Le Monde) and “The
Web time forgot” (New York Times), the Mundaneum is the visionary brainchild of Paul Otlet and
Henri La Fontaine who, from 1895, aimed to collect
and index all knowledge! Archives centre and
exhibition space designed by François Schuiten
and Benoit Peeters, the Mundaneum preserves a
precious documentary heritage, about basically
everything. The exhibition "Mapping Knowledge.
Understanding the world through data” marks its
big reopening after works. An interactive travel to
the heart of the universe of information: from pioneers of data visualization to contemporary artists
who take a new look at the complexity of today’s
world…
A coproduction Mundaneum and Foundation Mons 2015,
With the support of Google and the Tourism Commission,
in collaboration with CETIC, AWT and the Knowescape network,
in partnership with RTBF La Première and La Trois.
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AVIGNON: MONS 2015 & LA FABRICA
In 2013 the Avignon festival inaugurated la FabricA:
a new permanent location for rehearsals linked to
the festival and located near Avignon. It is there that
it was subsequently decided to develop a digital
area baptised FabricA Digital.
Situated in one of the most deprived districts of the
city of Avignon (between Monclar and Champfleury)
and built around 18 apartments, a foyer, technical
areas and a large theatre used for shows and
rehearsals, this first “digital district” in Avignon
has been designed as a vector for accelerating
social integration. As we are living in an all-digital
world, with 4G and omnipresent social networks,
it appears to be fundamental to use digital
technology to reach the 15 to 30 year olds and offer
them a cultural project with a learning angle.
A TRANSFER OF EXPERIENCES
AND COMPETENCIES
It is based on this vision for economic development
that the Avignon Festival called on Mons 2015
2014
2015
and TechnocITé to launch a similar process of
training on its own ground, which is just as fertile.
The resemblances between Avignon and Mons
are in fact many: the same size of population, the
same impact of the crisis on the periphery, the
same willingness to use a major cultural event
for economic leverage and the digital world as a
tool for social cohesion. Concretely, a series of
pilot projects have been launched in 2014 and will
continue in 2015, supervised by trainers from Mons
TechnocITé:
—— A Web TV to train on video, editing and sound
(which will be active during the Festival)
—— A “hackathon”, i.e. a gathering of “geeks” who
will work on the recording of debates organised
during the Festival, to optimise their Internet
referencing.
—— A platform for an intensive training for
professions in the cultural and digital sectors for
a young and adult audience.
FESTIVAL DES (RENCONTRES)
INATTENDUES
QUAND LA MUSIQUE ET LA
PHILOSOPHIE S’EMPARENT DES
NOUVELLES TECHNOLOGIES.
CATHÉDRALE DE TOURNAI
23.10 > 25.10.2014 - FABRIQUE
DE THÉÂTRE, FRAMERIES
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At the end of August 2015, the festival “Les
Innatendues” (Festival of the Unexpected (Music
and philosophy)” in Tounai will be a part of Mons
2015. The theme associating culture and technology
has, in fact, always been a constant thread of this
young festival dedicated to music and philosophy.
Already in 2013, a special evening (“l’âme du
temps”) held at the Notre-Dame cathedral was
labelled part of Mons 2015. We welcomed
philosopher, Bernard Stiegler, and the integration
of the OMax software (IRCAM/Paris) to the Nine
Spirit musical ensemble of saxophonist, Raphaël
Imbert, and pianist, Karol Beffa. In 2014 it was the
turn of a learning software for Tai Chi, imagined by
TechnocITé and Microsoft to be labelled Mons 2015.
Between Mons 2015 and the “unexpected”: it’s a
real love story.
For its 2015 edition, the “unexpected” plan to band
together publics of amateurs, improvisers and
critics through a mobile and temporary school of
music and philosophy animated by jazz musician,
Bernard Lubat, (with his company, Lubat) and
Bernard Stiegler (and his school, pharmakon.fr). This
school will train its “pupils” to practice instrumental
collective improvisation and contributive annotation
developed for the occasion by the Institut de
Recherche et d’Innovation of the Pompidou Centre,
of which Stiegler is the director. Rehearsals and
public performances will be held together with
conferences and philosophy sessions. Several will
be held in the Cafés Europa. These sessions, which
consist of three stages of training and intensive
practice, will then be recorded and broadcast over
time on a website devoted to the mobile school. All
this will at the centre of a collective improvisation
event, between a concert and a spectacular show.
A coproduction of the Province of Hainaut, the Fabrique de théâtre,
Maison de la culture de Tournai, l’Institut de Recherche et Innovation
(Paris) and the Fondation Mons 2015.
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FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DES ARTS
SONORES
MUSIQUE MONS INTRAMUROS
10.09 > 27.09.2015
PROGRAMME COMPLET DISPONIBLE EN MARS 2015
WWW.CITYSONIC.BE
City Sonic, festival of sound art in the urban space,
presents every year at Mons, a dozen projects on site
in a spirit that is pioneering, travelling and unifying.
This creation festival gathers Belgian and international
artists from different disciplines (current music, visual
arts, literature, digital arts, radio creation, design,...) in
different heritage and unusual sites with sound as the
unifying trait.
In 2015, the festival will become, for the thirteenth
occasion, a great urban hub without borders with
Sonic Métro, a route of audio-innovative, poetic and
playful facilities which will put sound, by network
and by" work" onto the blue line of the Métro
Europa creating “mobile audio”. Many partnerships
(with Rhizome/Québec, Plzen2015, Art Zoyd/
Valenciennes…) highlight both great names of sound
creation and "emerging sounds" in particular via
the exchange network between Belgian and foreign
schools of art which will have benefited from prior
residencies and technological support.
Highlights, travelling performances, concerts (from
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music to sonic), workshops (Sonic Kids, Fabaudio-Lab), public and professional meetings….will
punctuate a festival that more than ever before will
invest in the public space to transform it and connect
it to the four corners of planet sound.
Artistic Direction: Philippe Franck
A project of Transcultures in co-production with manège.mons and
With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Foundation.
FESTIVAL 5 SUR 5 / UTOPIE
DOCUMENTARY ABOUT LA LOUVIÈRE
AND MONS
CINÉMA STUART - LA LOUVIÈRE
FULL PROGRAMME WILL BE AVAILABLE IN DECEMBER 2014
WWW.FESTIVAL5SUR5.
An initiative of Espace Dragone asbl and
co-produced by the Mons 2015 Foundation in
collaboration with Centre culturel régional du Centre,
La Louvière city and the Province of Hainaut.
For the past 10 years, each autumn, the 5 / 5 Festival
featuring short documentaries has marked the life of
the city of La Louvière.
The cornerstone of this event is the creation of 5
short documentaries (10 minutes long) by 5 young
European filmmakers hosted in rehearsal residence
during 5 weeks. It is a creation in extreme situations,
a challenging and provocative cinema, and a new
insight on a city struggling to exist.
Since 2011, in view of Mons 2015, the 5 / 5 Festival
has expanded its geographical reach so as to include
Mons in its shooting places and also invited, each
year, several filmmakers from other cities that have
been, are or will be European Capital of Culture.
The theme chosen for this 2015 special edition is
Utopia, a topic focused on the young generation. The
5th Mons movie will be produced in collaboration
with the Mons 2015 Youth Project.
Une initiative de l’Espace Dragone asbl en coproduction avec la
Fondation Mons 2015 et en collaboration avec le Centre culturel
régional du Centre, la Ville de La Louvière et La Province de Hainaut.
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TRANSNUMERIQUES 2015
VICE VERSA - FROM DIGITAL TO CULTURE
RÉSIDENCES D’ARTISTES 18.11 > 26.11.2015
OUVERTURE DES INSTALLATIONS 27.11.2015
EXPOSITION 27.11 > 13.12.2015
SYMPOSIUM AU MUNDANEUM : 28.11.2015
10 media artists "pioneers" recognized for their
contributions and historical work in the field of digital
arts are invited to Mons, as part of the European
Capital of Culture. Each sponsoring a young artist
(selected on call) and helps to achieve in his final
stage production. After being contacted several
months ago, they meet for a week, in Mons, for a
workshop. Each pioneer has at least one work judged
as a historical and whose legacy is particularly valid x
years after its creation. Mirroring this, the creation of
a young artist (followed by his older) is offered to the
public. It is also to give visibility to this transmission
between those in pioneering approaches and
innovative research today. + Conference +
Workshops at Mundaneum
2015 STORIES, 2.0 EMULATION
LA SOCIAL TV DE TÉLÉMB, C’EST
MAINTENANT
DIGITAL / MEDIA / PARTICIPATION
EVERY WEDNESDAY 18:25 ON TÉLÉMB
By launching the first "Social TV" of French media
landscape, Télé MB in partnership with Mons 2015,
the Province of Hainaut and Google hopes to
bring an authentic emulation 2.0 that traditionally
produced content to its antenna.
2015 Stories is a weekly 26-minutes tells the stories
of those involved in the Mons European Capital of
Culture event. The key words of the issue: "Culture,
Creativity, technology innovation"!
In the 2015 issue stories is participatory and
interactive experience "multiscreen" that creates
the event. The spectator participates in history,
comments and sharing on social networks via
her computer, smartphone or tablet. Faced with
the socialization of content, TéléMB provides an
opportunity for the viewer become Telespect…
MEDIA DJ
Since 2013, a group of 45 young people engaged
in cultural journalism. They investigate the scenes of
Mons 2015 and publish their favorites and tips on a
dedicated blog. Four specialties : sound installation,
video, photography / Instagram, writing on the web.
From the autumn 2014, the project has also
declined in schools, with the support of Technocité
and under the Digital DJ program supported by the
King Baudouin Foundation.
actor, integrate the show, create social ties and
discuss various topics related to culture, creativity,
innovation and new technologies.
The life stories of the show in 2015 extends to a
web platform 2015histoires.be a space "streamed"
which reveals the receptacle of the stories that
actors and audience of Mons 2015 tell and share.
Find 2015 stories
www.2015histoires.be
@2015histoires #2015h
2015 histoires
YouTubeTeleMBTV
The principle: classes that fit in training in one of
four specialties, and students choose an event
or theme of the year 2015 "cover" with the media
studied. Contributions are published in the webzine
of Mons 2015.
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LUCIE FOURNIER
Lucie Fournier, head of youth projects, joined the Foundation Mons 2015 in
October 2012. Originally from Paris, she has
always been attracted by Belgium, and leapt
at the chance of being involved with Mons
2015. As well as ‘20 years old in 2015’, she
is working on projects that are relevant to all
young people. And you’re young from 0 to...
what age exactly? We prefer not to answer
that, because we think of being young as a
philosophy, a state of mind. ‘Young people’
are the generation that will invent what comes
after 2015. They are the people that will be
encouraged to express ideals and utopias
relating to the city. They are all those for whom
‘Mons ideal, my ideal’ is intended.
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In addition to the special focus on those who will be 20 years old in 2015,
make way for all the younger generations! Children, students, babies, families, thirtysomethings, teens – and indeed those who feel young at heart and sound of limb in
general. Unless being young is purely a question of chronology, it is surely also a way of
thinking and a way of life. Above all, it is a burst of energy and a promise for the future.
In 2015, young people have a key role to play in Mons. Because it is up to them to invent
2016, boldly and proudly. Because they will ride the wave of the capital and shape the city
in their image. Think the unthinkable. Build their utopias.
In 2015, this unifying theme of youth is called Mons ideal, my ideal.
So what’s the goal? To give young people the desire, the tools and the courage to explore
possibilities, affirm choices, take the initiative and speak out!
The programme includes debates with committed activists, concerts with politically
engaged artists, making political posters, training in political rap, alternative cookery
classes, poetical and political walks, workshops in which you can make your own miniprotester’s kit, solidarity sports, sustainable gardening and much more besides.
Little by little, an army is gathering. The poster artists, rappers, cooks, hikers, DIYers,
sportspeople, gardeners, and all the rest of them. Everywhere, young people are standing
up and getting together, taking action, plotting, and getting carried away, with clarity and
passion.
At the end of the year, as 2015 is gently winding down, our army will hold a large peaceful
demonstration, festive in spirit and open to all.
We’ll cross the city and head on towards 2016, guided by the dreams and the craziness,
the fieriness and the ideals of youth.
March on!
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Make love, not war! Valentine’s
weekend sees the launch of the festivities
for Mons Ideal, My Ideal: the programme for
young people throughout the year. Love, passion and engagement will be in evidence, and
you will be drawn in immediately. Arise, young
people, bubbling over with ideas, dreams and
revolts, promises and vitality! Around Mons,
everyone is getting up and getting together,
taking action, plotting, and getting carried
away – without moderation, but with clarity
and passion.
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Mons Idéal,
MAISON FOLIE / ALHAMBRA
My Ideal OPENING
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PECHA KUCHA ‘MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR’
YOUTH / CONFERENCE MAISON FOLIE
Pecha Kucha, bla bla bla: ten contributors tell a crowd of strangers why there should be love rather than
war. Twenty slides projected for twenty seconds each: long live activist initiatives – solidarity-based,
utopian or quirky, but always passionate!
13.02.15
CONCERT PUNK/ROCK
MUSIC / YOUTH ALHAMBRA
Every age has its own militant songs! In the name of flower power, and with music in our hearts and
bodies, let’s get up and sing out our convictions: alternative punk and rock groups put their message
across at the Alhambra.
14.02.15
PROTESTENCIL WORKSHOP
YOUTH / WORKSHOP MAISON FOLIE
Do you want to put your ideals into images and create a revolutionary poster? The illustrator and printmaker
Teresa Sdralevich provides you with stencils and introduces you to the principles of eloquent design. No
prior training required: this is free and instant art.
14.02.15
ACTIVIST COOKERY WORKSHOP
GASTRONOMIE / YOUTH MAISON FOLIE
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are. Political engagement involves our food too. Danielle
Foster, the most ‘montoise' of Americans, is incredibly inventive: slow food, meals from leftovers, organic or
local food: she’ll revolutionise your taste-buds.
14.02.15
MINIATURE CONCERT AND PHILOSOPHY TEA
MUSIC / YOUTH MAISON FOLIE
‘Don’t do this, don’t do that... bla bla bla!’ How many times did we hear such words up to the age of
twelve…at least? Younger members of the public also have the right to air their discontent over a snack
after a few protest songs.
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ENGAGED CONFERENCE
YOUTH / CONFERENCE MAISON FOLIE
What exactly does ‘engaging’ mean? And how do you go about it? Artists, writers and eminent activists come and tell us their
stories and recount their experiences. Obstacles, joys, disappointments and passions: what is the meaning of our actions?
14.02.15
POLITICAL SONG BLIND TEST
MUSIC/YOUTH MAISON FOLIE
Every struggle has its iconic songs. Can you identify them? From Léo Ferré to Bella Ciao via the Internationale and NTM, from
1789 to May ‘68, from the abolition of slavery to feminism, from workers’ movements to urban rioting ... we sing with passion.
14.02.15
PEOPLE’S PARTY, PUNK STYLE: ‘MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR’
MUSIC / PARTY / YOUTH ALHAMBRA
Gyrate to the rhythm of your passions and get carried along by your ideals: the Alhambra opens its doors to activists and
lovers alike for romantic waltzes and ska protest songs! Saint Valentine gets the Revolution dancing.
15.02.15
FREE MARKET / CLEAR-OUT SALE
YOUTH ALHAMBRA
Leave your wallet at home and go to the first Mons recycling market. Bring along items in good condition that you want to
get rid of, trade them or give them away: this is the place to swap without a second thought. And learn the art of sustainable
consumption.
15.02.15
REVOLUTIONARY SPORT
SPORT / YOUTH MAISON FOLIE
Get your jersey on, lace up your trainers, take a deep breath and discover some alternative sports: solidarity tournaments,
sporting engagement, militant flexibility, muscular idealism... Make your way to the Arbalestriers, where revolutionary sport is
no mere concept.
The grounds of the Old Military Bakery, known
to the people of Mons as the ‘Hanging
Gardens’, will be open once again as one of
the key settings for Mons Ideal, My Ideal, the
Mons 2015 youth project. It will be occupied
by a collective greenbuild project, as well as
by a participative activity programme during
the summer of 2015 which will turn it into
a laboratory of experiments emblematic of
citizens’ utopias and politically engaged young
people.
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POLITICAL POSTER
AND SLOGAN WORKSHOPS
YOUTH / WORKSHOP CARRÉ DES ARTS
How can we express our demands with powerful
images and words? Graphic artist Teresa Sdralevich
is accompanied by professionals from various
countries as she introduces us to the use of stencils,
paintings, typefaces and collages and sets our
imaginations free. Be bold!
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STUDIO ABC
YOUTH / WORKSHOP MAISON FOLIE / BIBLIOTHÈQUE
DE JEMAPPES
In May, Studio ABC invades the Maison Folie and
takes children and families on a journey of discovery
of the amazing city on the basis of models on a
human scale and quirky workshops. What does
architecture have to tell us? What is our place in the
city? How can we reclaim the streets?
POLITICALLY ENGAGED RAP
YOUTH / WORKSHOP / MUSIC FONDATION MONS 2015
Who’s afraid of the big bad rap? Urban talk hits the
mark when Brussels organisation Lezarts Urban, MC
Tonino and rapper Sempaï offer to coach you! See
you there!
In November, the scene of action shifts to
Jemappes Library, where children have the chance
to make their ‘mini protester’s kit’. The programme
features discussing the meaning and purpose of
protest and politically engaged DIY workshops.
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ENGAGED
ALHAMBRA / CARRÉ DES ARTS
ART WEEKEND
Can art change the world? What is an
engaged painting, sculpture, piece of music
or book? Can you defend a political viewpoint
through creativity? Mons ideal, my ideal offers
everyone the opportunity to reflect on these
matters actively by organising protest song
concerts, activist performances, political poster
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workshops and exhibitions and a public debate.
A few days before the opening of the Museum
Cluster and Arsonic, at the heart of the urban
facilities, art asks the difficult questions.
HAPPY MANIF
PERFORMANCE CARRÉ DES ARTS
A joyful and off-beat choreographed amble that will cause general amusement and a life-sized role-playing
game orchestrated by David Rolland. With their headphones on, the participants instantly become the
interpreters of a weird and wonderful urban score and discover the city from a different viewpoint.
28.03.15
PROTEST SONG CONCERT
MUSIC/PARTY ALHAMBRA
20 :00
Every age has its own militant songs! In the name of flower power, and with music in our hearts and
bodies, let’s get up and sing out our convictions: engaged rappers and alternative punk and rock groups
put their message across at the Alhambra. Get ready for an IKONOKLASH evening!
28.03.15
> 29.03.15
POLITICAL POSTER SHOW
EXHIBITION CARRÉ DES ARTS
‘Politics is the science of freedom!’ Such is the slogan of the collective Ne Pas Plier, which supervises the
political poster workshop conducted with Arts² students. Artists and sociologists give shape and voice to
today’s social struggles.
28.03.15
DEBATE ABOUT POLITICALLY ENGAGED ART
WORKSHOP/YOUTH CARRÉ DES ARTS
18:00
What remains of artists’ subversive role in the era of mass cultural consumption in an apolitical void?
What place does our commercial system leave for creativity? A few independent-minded production and
distribution structures resist the trend by alerting the general public.
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FESTIVAL OF YOUTH
PARTY/YOUTH
MONS INTRAMUROS
The City of Mons opens the doors of creativity to
young people aged three to eighteen years for an
entire day of playing, running, dancing, sculpting
and singing. Huge bouncy castles and a skate park
are set up in the Grand’Place; the Jardin du Maïeur
bristles with obstacles; balloon-sculpting takes
place in the pedestrian area, and there is dressing
up and acting; a play is presented in the Auditorium
Abel Dubois, children sing in the Théâtre Royal, and
rap and hip-hop are laid on at the Alhambra in the
evening! Everyone can have a rest the following
week (perhaps).
EL SISTEMONS
MUSIC/YOUTH THÉÂTRE ROYAL
24.04.2015 - 13:30 / 25.04.2015 - 11:00
Music under the cobblestones (to adapt an old protesters’ slogan from ’68)...! El Sistemons draws
inspiration from the network of orchestras for disadvantaged children, El Sistema, founded in Venezuela
by Jose-Maria Abreu. Musiques Nouvelles and ReMuA introduce children from the schools of Mons to the
playing of musical instruments, leading up to a concert.
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FESTIVAL 5 SUR 5 / UTOPIA
LA LOUVIÈRE ET MONS EN DOCUMENTAIRE
CINÉMA STUART - LA LOUVIÈRE
PROGRAMME COMPLET DISPONIBLE EN DÉCEMBRE 2014
WWW.FESTIVAL5SUR5.BE
Every autumn for over ten years, the Festival 5 sur
5 has examined the town of La Louvière through
the lens of documentary filmmaking. At the heart
of the event is a five-week artistic residency for five
young European filmmakers, each of whom has
the objective of making a ten-minute documentary.
Urgent work, challenging cinema, and a fresh look at
a region that is fighting for its life.
Since 2011, with Mons 2015 in prospect, 5 sur 5 has
extended its geographical scope by including Mons
in its filming locations and inviting several filmmakers
every year from European Capitals of Culture present,
past or future.
On the fringe of this international residency,
screening evenings, professional meetings and
events to do with documentary film are held.
In 2015, the Festival will have a particular character,
focusing on the younger generation through the
theme of Utopia. The fifth Mons documentary will
be made in collaboration with the Mons 2015 Youth
Project.
On Saturday 10 October 2015, the public will be
able to discover the five documentaries, including
the product of a unique experience for these young
people, between Mons and La Louvière.
An initiative of Espace Dragone asbl in coproduction with the Mons
2015 Foundation and in collaboration with the Centre culturel régional
du Centre, the City of La Louvière and the Province of Hainaut.
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YOUTH MAISON FOLIE / MONS INTRAMUROS
‘It is not rebellion itself that is noble, but its aims,’
Albert Camus wrote in The Rebel: An Essay on Man
in Revolt in 1951. What do young people dream of
in 2015, and what are their ideals and aims?
Throughout the year, workshops, lectures,
performances, concerts and meetings with activists
will provoke thought and encourage engagement.
During the last weekend of November, young
people will lay their cards on the table and voice
their ideals at the Maison Folie. Verbal sparring,
poetry slams, political posters... all are invitations to
expression. On 28 November, a huge demonstration
will then invade the city, bringing together
generations and carrying the utopian ideals of youth
into 2016.
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ADOLESCENCE: A HERO FACTORY
EXHIBITION / YOUTH WORKSHOPS FUCAM + FRIGOS
DES ANCIENS ABATTOIRS
Since 2011, the ASSOCIATED artist Wajdi Mouawad
has been taking young people who will turn 20
in 2015 on a remarkable adventure in which they
learn to think for themselves and cope with life.
This exhibition traces this extraordinary experience
and the young people’s journey as they make the
transition to adulthood.
After journeys to Athens in 2011 to decipher the roots
of our civilisation (‘writing’), Lyons in 2012 to consider
the importance of manuscripts in the transmission of
thought (‘reading’), and Auschwitz in 2013 to examine
the industry of death during the Holocaust (‘counting’),
the last trip was to Toubab-Dialow in Senegal, for
‘speaking’.
Back in 2011, Wajdi Mouawad, the well-known theatre
director from Quebec, was the first to accept the
invitation to become an ASSOCIATED artist for Mons
2015. Since then, he has accompanied a group of 50
young people from Mons, Namur, Nantes, Montreal
and La Réunion in an exceptional human, artistic and
philosophical experience. It has involved ‘offering them
the tools and conditions they need to individually
grasp that it is possible to think for yourself,’ he says.
Summer after summer, from Athens to Toubab-Dialaw,
this man of the theatre has provoked reflection and
observed the growth of the young people who will
turn 20 in 2015.
Accompanied by the footballer Lilian Thuram, the
group shared the daily life of the local people and
lived to the rhythm of Africa, where knowledge and
wisdom are often transmitted orally, and ‘talking’ is
an encouragement to open up to others. There were
frenzied football games on the beach, Senegalese
wrestling tournaments, theatre workshops, a great
collective clean-up on the streets, meals, parties
together, and hushed discussions under the palaver
tree... The young people were also encouraged to
explore ‘the Other’, to find out what it means to be
20 years old in Senegal, and to reflect on difference,
discrimination and racism.
Exchanges and discussion have flowed freely, and
the young people are still progressing in their learning
process.
Initiatory journeys in order to ‘grow up together’
Each stage is a journey, symbolically associated
with a verb that determines the destination, the
details of the trip and the identities of those who
are invited to participate. The project derives from a
line in Incendies, a play by Wajdi Mouawad, where a
grandmother tells her granddaughter, ‘If you want to
get by, you must learn to read, write, count, talk and
think’.
Involving passionate debate, the ability to express your
feelings accurately, maturity of thought and the asking
of powerful questions, this experience has been
fundamental to the learning process that the young
people have undergone with the artist.
Next stage: the Moon? In the meantime, Wajdi
Mouawad has left a group that has grown up and is
readier than ever for the adventure of the 20s in 2015.
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ANNE ANDRÉ
After a degree in educational psychology at the University of Mons and a few years
working in the field of education, Anne André
changed direction and has now worked
for nearly 30 years in the arts sector. As a
director at the Hainaut Drama Centre since
its inception in 1984, and then at manège.
mons since 2002, she has directed Maison
Folie since 2005, which she likes to define as
an extraordinary place with multiple potential
uses that is open to all, and frequented by
the young, the old, art students, amateurs,
professionals, poets, visual artists, dancers
and designers – in short, a humming hive of
activity! As part of Mons 2015, she is overseeing the ‘Home and Away’ and ‘Weekends
en Folie’ projects in the Espace de Tous les
Possibles – the ‘space of limitless potential’,
which will never have so richly deserved its
name. It will host artists and organisations
from near and far, who will together enable
you to discover a thousand and one cultural
and festive offerings.
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In 2015, the Maison Folie celebrates its tenth anniversary, and it has every intention of
taking advantage of this fact to establish itself as a key venue for the European Capital of
Culture. Throughout the year, there will be opportunities to discover a thousand and one
cultural and festive events there, but the Maison Folie will also be the perfect place to relax
and have a chat and a bite to eat in a family atmosphere. In short, this will be a truly versatile space that sums up the Mons 2015 spirit: warm, quirky, and open to all-comers and
every discipline.
One of the major events on the Maison Folie programme is the ‘Home and Away’ happenings, in French Ailleurs en Folie, during which eight cities – some from Europe, others
from further afield – will be in the spotlight for 11 days each, with a programme of performing artss, residencies, concerts, games and gastronomy. The result is a novel form of travel,
in which you have to take just a few steps to engage with another culture. By immersing
us – without jet lag! – in Tokyo, Casablanca, Montreal/Quebec, Milan, Lille, Pilsen, London
and Melbourne, these ‘Home and Aways’ will highlight the arts scene in these cities, while
building bridges with Mons, its region, its artists and organisations.
Between each of these stopovers, the Maison Folie will also put on a number of
‘Weekends en Folie’, each one based around an equally striking theme. From Friday night
to Sunday, you can expect surprise after surprise! Whether the focus is on literature, young
people or theatre, these weekends will be very much in the same spirit as ‘Home and
Away’... And because culture is also a matter of appetite (or indeed bulimia!), the Bistrot
Folie will welcome you throughout the year: every highlight and every ‘Home and Away’
will be an opportunity to sample specialities (from sushi to poutine) and generally chill out.
In 2015 and beyond, the Maison Folie will cater to every appetite!
Mons 2015
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Anne André: ‘For each of the eight parts of
Home and Away at Mons 2015, we will be working
with a curator who has an excellent knowledge of
his or her city’s cultural and artistic scene.
These curators have come here regularly and
we have put them in touch with organisations and
artists in the Federation Wallonia-Brussels. This is
what happened for the Melbourne Home and Away,
for instance. The Australians stayed in Mons for
three weeks, and after returning to Australia then
welcomed three of our home-grown artists to create
some joint works. And they found common ground,
including immigration and mining, which have
marked the history of these two regions at opposite
ends of the world.
It’s this interplay between identity and
otherness, between what unites us and what
differentiates us, that interests us. But we must
keep in mind that our programme must retain
a family and festive flavour, which is why our
premises will be turned into spaces with the
colours, scents, flavours and expressions of down
under. All of this will make the Maison Folie a place
of constant activity and hospitality throughout 2015.
The place to be!’
28.01 > 01.02.2015
LILLE
Curator: Fanny Bouyagui,
Director= Art Point M
19 > 22.02.2015
LONDRES
Curator: Marine Thévenet
for Artsadmin
16 > 26.04.2015
CASABLANCA
Curator: Alya Sebti,
Artistic Director of the 5th Marrakech Biennial.
07 > 17.05.2015
MILAN
Curator: Francesca Sarti,
Director Arabeschi di Latte
18 > 28.06.2015
MELBOURNE
Curator: Jude Anderson,
Artistic Director of Punctum
17 > 27.09.2015
MONTRÉAL / QUÉBEC
Curator: Jasmine Catudal,
Director of the OFFTA Festival
15 > 25.10.2015
TOKYO
Joint curators: Kyomi Ichida and Thomas
Duchatelet, Cie Thomas Duchatelet
12 > 15.11.2015
PILSEN
Curator: Roman Černík,
Director: Johan Centrum
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FANNY BOUYAGUI
Peau d'âne
© ART POINT M
Fanny Bouyagui is a Mons 2015 associate artist. Fanny’s story is of a
process that led her from a secondary vocational qualification in needlework to a
prestigious School of Fine Arts and travelling all over the world. In 1991 she created the association Art Point M and chose a former textile warehouse in Roubaix
as a place to live and work. Her past and her roots are reflected in multiple artistic
offerings, including fashion, multimedia installations and live performing artss.
In 1999, with Didier Thibaut, director of the Rose des Vents theatre in Villeneuve
d’Ascq, she created the multimedia show Quelques Gens de Plus ou de Moins.
At the same time, Fanny Bouyagui was developing artistic work based on the
concept of fashion in cat-walk shows with the recurring theme of the female body
and its representations.
The early 2000s marked a turning point with the creation of the ‘Laboratory
Factory’ – a temporary electronic music club for Lille 2004, European Capital of
Culture. Meanwhile, Fanny created Violences commerciales for the ‘25th hour’
programme at the Avignon Festival (2005) and the Chambres de l'Hôtel Europa
at the Gare Saint Sauveur railway station in Lille (2009, 2010 and 2011), and
worked with Lille 3000, including in October 2012 for the opening parade with
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. Fanny is also behind ‘NAINPORTEKOI’ – the world’s
largest garden gnome customisation operation! She has also created a series of
Peace Portraits with migrants in Calais and the DJs she loves.
Her latest exhibition, Soyez les bienvenus, takes as its starting-point the
story of her father, a Senegalese immigrant who arrived in France in 1957. In order
to understand the situation of thousands of young Africans ready to do anything
to reach Europe, she travels to Agadez in Niger, the starting point of the migration
flows. A year later, she tries to meet up with them again on the other side of the
Mediterranean, in southern Italy.
In September 2013, Fanny was decorated as a knight of the National Order
of the Legion of Honour.
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY
home
& away
MAISON FOLIE
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Curator: FANNY BOUYAGUI
lille
With Fanny Bouyagui - Art Point M / Mimi the clown / Eric Delecourt / Olivier Dubois / Mange, Lille… and many others
Lille, the birthplace of the Maisons Folie,
will be in the spotlight to inaugurate 2015 at the
Maison Folie. You are sure to be tempted by this
opportunity to discover a varied and inventive
palette of Lille’s talents.
[After viewing] the photography collection of
Eric Delecourt, a collector with an unusual story,
discover Fanny Bouyagui’s performing arts (midway
between art and fashion), then head over to the
Bistrot Folie, whose front has been used for a
monumental composition by Mimi the Clown and
where you can enjoy a waffle – a soothing pastry
from the Maison Meert – unless you are more
tempted by the culinary opera…
Curated by Fanny Bouyagui (Art Point M) / Production and
distribution coordinators Thierry Capeau and Sébastien
Lejeune / Head of communication Sabine Duthoit / Administration
Sabine Robette / Logistics Fabienne Jourdain / Technical support Rémi Fournier, Ben Pauwels, Sada Bouyagui.
CROSSING THE MIRROR
+ DONKEY SKIN + MANDALA
FANNY BOUYAGUI
INSTALL ATIONS / EXHIBITIONS
MAISON FOLIE - ESPACE DES POSSIBLES
28.01.2015 - 12:00 > 18:00
29.01 > 30.01.2015 - 12:00 > 23:00
01.02.2015 - 12:00 > 21:00
FREE ENTRANCE
Welcome to a hall of mirrors like no other. More than
500 m² of mirrors in all shapes, some accurate and
others distorting: reflections of yourself and others.
Enter the donkey skin room, a psychedelic and funky
hotel for misappropriated legends and tales. And
browse a mandala made of 4,000 resin figures for a
moment of serenity, soothed by intoxicating music.
ERIC DELECOURT COLLECTION
EXHIBITION
28.01.2015 - 12:00 > 18:00
29.01 > 30.01.2015 - 12:00 > 23:00
01.02.2015 - 12:00 > 21:00
Eric is a collector. The story of his passion for
contemporary art begins in the United States in
the late 90s. His ‘US customers’ of that time, as he
discreetly calls them, include the likes of Dennis
Hopper, Madonna, Al Pacino and Sylvester Stallone.
Not to be missed!
MIMI THE CLOWN
INSTALL ATION
MAISON FOLIE / BISTROT FOLIE
28.01 > 31.01.2015 - 12:00 > 23:00
01.02.2015 - 12:00 > 21:00
FREE ENTRANCE
Mimi the Clown specialises in spectacular graffiti.
This politically engaged and provocative artist’s
stencils, with their blend of humour and politics, are
now internationally recognised.
Mons 2015
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29.01.15
> 30.01.15
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MANGE, LILLE !
CULINARY OPERA
GASTRONOMY / PERFORMING ARTS MAISON FOLIE/ESPACE DES POSSIBLES
29.01 > 30.01.2015 - 20:00
25 € - BY RESERVATION ONLY
Mange, Lille ! is a collective of chefs and food enthusiasts who want to show that in Lille, people eat –
and eat well! Led by Marie-Laure Fréchet and Nicolas Verhulst, they are building momentum around this
promising cuisine.
31.01.15
> 01.02.15
COLLECTION REMIX
FANNY BOUYAGUI
PERFORMING ARTS / FASHION ART MAISON FOLIE / ESPACE DES POSSIBLES
31.01.15 - 20:00
01.02.15 - 16:00
FREE ENTRANCE - BY RESERVATION ONLY
GENERAL PUBLIC
Since the early 90s, Fanny has produced artistic work based around fashion. Clothing is a medium of
expression, a representation of certain phenomena. She uses it to depict topical events and subjects, and
plays on the interactivity of bodies, images and sounds.
Partners: Philippe Gonay & Jean-Jacques Doolaeghe / Salons Philippe Gonay
31.01.15
CULINARY WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN
GASTRONOMY / WORKSHOP MAISON FOLIE / ESPACE DES POSSIBLES
31.01.15 - 13:30 & 15:30
FROM 10 YEARS
FREE ENTRANCE - BY REGISTRATION ONLY
Children make a complete take-home meal, much to the delight of their families!
FRI.
06
02
2015
SUN.
08
02
2015
WEEK-END EN FOLIE - CARNAVALESQUE
PAR ART CONCEPT GROUP / ACCESS
FASHION / MUSIC / CIRCUS / GASTRONOMY
MAISON FOLIE
Ten young fashion designers present their creations
in a carnival atmosphere, surrounded by magicians,
jugglers, clowns and of course those mysterious
carnival figures, Les Gilles! The programme also
includes clothing customisation, jewellery-making,
furniture restoration and many other surprises.
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de Fanny Bouyagui
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MARINE THÉVENET
Marine Thévenet is a project manager at Artsadmin, a
body based at Toynbee Studios in London. Artsadmin supports creativity and artistic development by helping with the
realisation of projects ranging from performing arts to installation; these projects may be on site and/or participative, but
are always innovative and/or experimental. It also offers both
emerging and established artists free resources in the form of
individual advice, networking, lobbying, scholarships, etc. In
this way, Marine accompanies and produces projects by artists
such as Station House Opera, Tim Spooner, Michael Pinsky,
Philippe Decouflé, Graeme Miller and many others.
Ailleurs en Folie Londres
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SUN.
22
02
2015
FESTIVAL / PERFORMING ARTS / GASTRONOMY
PARTY / WORKSHOP & CONFERENCES
EXHIBITION / MUSIC / CINEMA
home
& away
MAISON FOLIE
—
CURATOR: MARINE THÉVENET
FOR ARTSADMIN
london
Curated by Marine Thévenet for
Artsadmin. With the assistance of the
Bureau International Jeunesse (BIJ)
Cor blimey! For the second of its eight-part
‘Home and Away’ series, the Maison Folie has
turned Londoner, with no eccentricity spared. It’s
as though you were really there: a working men’s
club complete with darts, formica tables and
lamé curtains. But this is also an incubator for a
fast-breeding London culture and a hot-bed for
performing arts art. Whether you are en famille, with
your other half or on your own, you’ll enjoy both the
irresistible British atmosphere and the programme
dedicated to the experimental carryings-on of the
hyper-creative (Rebecca Davies and the Tabards,
Rajni Shah, Nic Green, Hot Breath Karaoke, Upset
The Rhythm, Phil Minton, Action Hero, Rosana Cade,
Andrea Zimmerman). As we await the next stops
in Melbourne, Milan, Pilsen, Tokyo, Montreal and
Casablanca, here is a project custom-designed for
the 11th anniversary of the Maison Folie, born of the
cultural network that emerged from Lille 2004.
It’s wild!
Anne André, director of the Maison Folie:
‘The working men’s clubs were created in the 19th
century as a place for the workers to go. With
widespread factory closures, many closed down,
but today they are being revived, thanks to the
artists who are moving back into them. We will
be welcoming the team from the Bethnal Green
Working Men’s Club, and its unhinged bill of fare,
in addition to our collaboration with Artsadmin,
a London production organisation. We will thus
remain true to the identity of the Maison Folie,
which aims to break down barriers between
different publics and disciplines, and to create links
between organisations and artists from here and
from elsewhere. Thus, for each of the eight parts of
Home and Away in Mons 2015, we will be working
with a curator who has an excellent knowledge of
his or her city’s cultural and artistic scene. These
curators have come here regularly and we have
put them in touch with organisations and artists
in the Federation Wallonia-Brussels. This is what
happened for the Melbourne Home and Away,
for instance. The Australians stayed in Mons for
three weeks, and after returning to Australia then
welcomed three of our home-grown artists to create
some joint works. And they found common ground,
including immigration and mining, which have
marked the history of these two regions at opposite
ends of the world. It’s this interplay between
identity and otherness, between what unites us
and what differentiates us, that interests us. But
we must keep in mind that our programme must
retain a family and festive flavour, which is why
our premises will be turned into spaces with the
colours, scents, flavours and expressions of down
under. All of this will make the Maison Folie a place
of constant activity and hospitality throughout 2015.
The place to be!’
Mons 2015
DOSSIER DE PRESSE
19.02.15
FATHERLAND
THEATRE BISTROT FOLIE
> 15 ANS
20:00
Born to a Scottish father (whom she met just once, at the age of sixteen), Nic Green goes in search of the
mystery of her paternal ancestors, conjuring up the Scotland of her ancestors in a shamanic dance to the
pagan rhythms of a percussionist. An existential performing arts ‘that invokes the peaty taste of single-malt
whisky,’ enthuses the Guardian.
19.02.15
> 22.02.15
REBECCA DAVIES AND FRIENDS AKA MAVIS DAVIS AND THE TABARDS
PERFORMING ARTS / WORKSHOPS MAISON FOLIE
12:00 > 00:00
You couldn’t tire of Rebecca Davies & Friends! They will bring the Working Men’s Club alive during the four
days of the London Home and Away. Primarily an illustrator, Davies came to prominence by performing
from her quirky ice-cream van at the V&A and the Barbican. The menu features stand-up as well as other
forms of entertainment, séances, workshops and a closing show.
19.02.15
HOT BREATH KARAOKE
MUSIC / PERFORMING ARTS / CLUB / NIGHT / PARTICIPATION BISTROT FOLIE
21:30
Mike and Jen, a.k.a. “The House of Hot Breath”, inaugurate the London Home and Away with rhinestones
and sequins. As perfect MCs, Mike and Jen will entertain the public with an off-beat karaoke session –
or to be more precise cardioke, in which you have to run as fast as you can while singing all the time...
Unlikely and kitsch, but with a highly sophisticated choice of music!
20.02.15
> 22.02.15
WORK IT, WORKERS ! LET’S GET PHYSICAL
WALKING TOUR / PARTICIPATION BISTROT FOLIE
20.02 > 21.02 - 10:30
22.02 - 11:30
This is almost like Chaplin’s Modern Times! Attend the factory ball as devised by Tracey. You will ‘retrace’
the history of industry in the UK, discovering the everyday actions of its workers. Here comes the miner’s
dance, the lunchbox dance or the hop-picking dance... Put on a pair of overalls, grab a tool and move to
the rhythms of the factory, with a dash of Northern Soul.
20.02.15
UPSET THE RYTHM PRESENTS…
MUSIC MAISON FOLIE
22:00
The Upset the Rhythm label, which has a track record for discovering new talent such as Ariel Pink, Ty
Segall, Wild Nothing, No Age, the Lucky Dragons and Dan Deacon, is at the forefront of the New York and
London underground scene. Through a programme custom-designed for Maison Folie, plunge into the
latest in music.
21.02.15
ACTION HERO / SLAP TALK
PERFORMING ARTS BISTROT FOLIE
10:00 > 16:00
Inspired by boxing, Slap Talk is a six-hour verbal sparring match (with subtitles!) that reflects on the
linguistic violence of everyday life. Lovers exchanging insults, the hard sell of a shopping channel, the
anger of a hypocritical preacher... To dodge the blows, you are free to enter and leave at any time.
21.02.15
> 22.02.15
CLOCK IN AND PUT YOUR OVERALLS ON ! #1
FASHION / PERFORMING ARTS / WORKSHOP BISTROT FOLIE
14:30
Under the sardonic gaze of Mags and Sidney of the Tabards, together with your ‘work colleagues’ you will
make costumes and accessories for a big party on the theme of life in industry. But first, the decor for this
amazing workshop needs to be created: a smelly and noisy factory, worthy of your two bosses.
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RAJNI SHAH ET LES MUSICIENS DE GLORIOUS & PHIL MINTON
MUSIC / PERFORMING ARTS / PARTICIPATION ESPACE DES POSSIBLES
An evening in three parts. The performing arts artist Rajni Shah turns back to Glorious, which she has
presented at the Maison Folie on a previous occasion, and freely revisits this participatory show, consisting
of a fixed core of six songs and six monologues. She is followed by the vocalist Phil Minton – he of the
exasperated expression – and the cabaret of two dancers from Project O.
21.02.15
> 22.02.15
WALKING : HOLDING
MUSIC MONS INTRAMUROS
10:00 > 17:00
A performing arts for one person involving walking around the city. Starts from the Margin’halle at Maison
Folie every 15 minutes. For 12 years and upwards, admission free.
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SUN.
27
02
2015
01
03
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FRI.
SUN.
06
03
2015
08
03
2015
FRI.
SUN.
03
04
2015
05
04
2015
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WEEK-END EN FOLIE – ATOUTATTOO
DRAWING ON THE SKIN…
EXHIBITION / MUSIC / GASTRONOMY MAISON FOLIE
Tattooing, which used to be a marginal phenomenon,
is very much on display nowadays. Four artists take a
look at this new craze, with its element of imagination
and fantasy, from the intimacy of the tattoo parlour to
the explicitness of the tattoo convention. They speak
of the kinship of pain and happiness, engraved in
indelible ink under the skin.
WEEK-END EN FOLIE – ANYTHING ELSE
PAR ARTS²
HAPPENING / PERFORMING ARTS / MUSIC / CIRCUS
THEATRE / GASTRONOMY MAISON FOLIE
Give us this day something other than our daily
bread. For three days and two nights, this weekend
will consist of a succession of dozens of performers
from arts colleges all over the country.
WEEK-END EN FOLIE – BATTLE TRANSSS
PAR L’ASBL NDG (NEW DANCE GO)
DANCE / WORKSHOP / GASTRONOMY MAISON FOLIE
In Battle TransSs, two styles of hip-hop clash: New
Style (the best-known kind, performed to strongly
rhythmic music with lots of bass) and Krump (very
energetic, aesthetically aggressive dancing inspired
by traditional African dances). But there is no
duelling here. Breathtaking choreographic shows
accompanied by exceptional DJs.
With Martine Dessy, Julie Moulin,
Alisson Lepage, Francis Delanativité. With
the ‘Spirale’ association of amateur musical
groups from the local area and elsewhere.
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04
2015
HOME AND AWAY
CASABLANCA
FESTIVAL / PERFORMING ARTS / GASTRONOMY PARTY / WORKSHOP & CONFERENCES / EXHIBITIONS MUSIC / CINEMA MAISON FOLIE
Sometimes known as Dar El Beida (‘white house’
in Moroccan) but also recently as ‘Casa Negra’ in
reference to the film of that name released in 2008,
Casablanca has all the paradoxes and creative
tensions of a city that constantly oscillates between
tradition and the ultra-contemporary, between wealth
and poverty, between pollution and architectural
gems of the Art Deco period.
Casablanca today emanates a creative energy
without comparison in any other city in Morocco, and
its power as a catalyst means that it carries within
it all the extremes of a proud and fierce metropolis,
resolutely contemporary, a pioneering city that
serves as a port of entry to Africa, continually
reinventing itself.
installation by the artist Yacout Kabbaj; and
unprecedented installations by the Brussels-based
Moroccan artist Younes Baba Ali. Witness a work
of joint creation of female weavers in Belgium
and Morocco by the visual artist Amina Agueznay.
Attend street art workshops with a long-awaited
collaboration between the artist Aouina and Djamel
Oulkadi. For children, Moroccan craftsmanship is
in the spotlight, with workshops led by ZidZid Kid.
Come and watch dance performances with Meryem
Jazuli and Tawfiq Izediou, and finally full-length and
short films on any and every subject in the ‘Casa
Projecta’ festival.
Curator : Alya Sebti
With the assistance of Bureau International Jeunesse (BIJ)
Discover several exhibitions by great Moroccan
artists such as the photographer Khalil Nemmaoui;
a pre-screening in its entirety of Syada, a video
ALYA SEBTI
Alya Sebti, artistic director of the Marrakech V Biennial,
has curated many exhibitions in North Africa and Europe,
including the Morocco pavilion at the GRID Photography
Biennial (Amsterdam 2012), Des espaces autres in Casablanca/
Amsterdam 2013, and Equilibres in Berlin in October 2014.
From 2012 to 2014, she initiated and co-curated with Arte Est
a cycle of online exhibitions on Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
She is the curator of Casablanca, dark energy for Mons 2015,
European Capital of Culture. Her recent publications include
Pas de Deux, Villa Romana (February 2014) and POSITION
Social exchange through Art in the Arab World (Akademie der
Kunst, Berlin 2014). She is a member of the board of directors
of the IBA (International Biennial Association) and a consultant
on visual art and cultural initiatives in North Africa.
FRI.
01
05
2015
SUN.
03
05
2015
WEEK-END EN FOLIE MONS S’M-ERVEILLE !
AMATEUR THEATRE / PARTICIPATIVE MAISON FOLIE
On the occasion of Mons 2015, the Theama festival
pulls out all the stops, inviting the people of Mons
to fall under the spell of the mighty Molière’s magic
in myriad ways. M, the murmur deep in the soul,
sweet music of all that’s tasty: mmm! Because
amateur theatre is primarily an impassioned,
enthralling and harmonious blend of emotions…
Project supported by the National Federation of French-Language
Drama Companies (FNCD) and in collaboration with manège.mons/
Maison Folie.
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FRANCESCA SARTI
Francesca Sarti, exhibition curator and
designer artist, founded Arabeschi di Latte
in 2001, an Italian food design collective.
Blurring the boundaries between food and
design, and using food as a tool to communicate, the collective has created and presented a series of food-related projects such
as pop-up cafés, interactive installations,
special dinners and workshops worldwide.
Ailleurs en Folie Milan
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05
2015
MAR.
17
05
2015
FESTIVAL / PERFORMING ARTS / GASTRONOMY
PARTY / WORKSHOP & CONFERENCES
EXHIBITION / MUSIC / CINEMA
home
MAISON FOLIE
—
CURATOR: FRANCESCA SARTI
& away
MILAN
With Alla Carta, Arabeschi di latte,
Carnovsky, Caroline Corbetta, Matteo Cibic,
Design marketo, Jean-paul Lespagnard, Stefano
Maffei, Marcello Maloberti, Pizza magazine,
ps - Michela Pellizzari and Federica Sala, Maurizio
Stocchetto, Nico Vascellari, Marco Velardi.
Treat yourself to a trip to Milan! A designer
trip, of course: there’s Pure Juice, an exhibition of
innovative developments in Milan today, Mondo
Pasta in which you can discover a whole world of
pasta whose existence you never suspected, or RGB
at the Bistrot Folie for a unique visual, optical and, of
course, taste experience.
With the assistance of Durobor
Watch the musical and visual performance
of Ninos du Brasil in an unforgettable evening
of pure energy, and, for aficionados of FIFA (the
International Festival of Films on Art), the mini love
film festival Milano in love, love in Milan. Take part
in the Balera just like in Milan: come and dance to
Italian traditional and popular music in an outfit that
you have created during workshops with Jean-Paul
Lespagnard. And to get you in the mood, you’re
invited to the aperitivo alla milanese at the Bar Alto:
savour one of those famous Negroni cocktails that
you may be given the chance to prepare yourself.
Mons 2015
DOSSIER DE PRESSE
MILANO ALLA CARTA
EXHIBITION ESPACE DES POSSIBLES
Alla carta is a Milanese food magazine published twice a year. The exhibition offers a tour of their best
photos, in particular in the heart of some traditional Milanese restaurants.
07.05.15
> 17.05.15
C.I.R.C.U.S.
INSTALLATION COUR MAISON FOLIE
18:00 > 23:00 - OPENING
FRI. 08.05 / SAT. 09.05 / WED. 13.05 > SUN. 17.05.2015 - 12:00 > 18:00
In the courtyard of the Maison Folie, a tent filled with mirrors, lighting effects, music. Everyone is welcome
to this space dedicated to spontaneous encounters and interaction. A collective participatory event created
by the artist Marcello Maloberti.
07.05.15
> 17.05.15
IL GELATO ALLA MILANESE
CULINARY INSTALLATION BY MATTEO CIBIC
INSTALLATION / WORKSHOP BISTROT FOLIE
12:00 > 23:00
Whatever you do, don’t miss out on the famous ice-cream alla milanese. The artist Matteo Cibic turns the
entrance to the Maison Folie into an unusual ice-cream parlour and offers an exclusive flavour: saffron.
07.05.15
BAR ALTO
ATMOSPHERE MAISON FOLIE
18:00 > 23:00
Bar Basso is the place to meet during Fashion and Design Week in Milan. The owner, Maurizio Stocchetto,
relocates his famous bar to Mons. Enjoy an aperitivo, but that’s not all... Especially for the occasion,
handicraft students from Hainaut design a series of glasses under the seasoned eye of Alex Bettler of
Design Marketo.
08.05.15
NINOS DU BRAZIL
NICO VASCELLARI
MUSIC / PERFORMING ARTS BISTROT FOLIE
21:30
Tropical apocalypse at the Maison Folie! Eccentric Italian punk artist Nico Vascellari offers the unlikely
combination of percussion and hardcore techno to give us a sample of the atmosphere of Brazil’s Bathia.
09.05.15
> 17.05.15
MINI LOVE FILM FESTIVAL
CINEMA MAISON FOLIE / PLAZA ART
09.05. / 14.05. / 15.05.15 - 20:00
10.05.15 - 16:00
Milan, city of romance. For its thirtieth anniversary, the Love Film Festival offers a selection of old and new
films shot in Milan.
In collaboration with the Love Film Festival and Plaza Art
07.05.15
> 16.05.15
PURE JUICE
AVEC PS MICHELA PELLIZZARI ET FEDERICA SALA
EXHIBITION / DESIGN ESPACE DES POSSIBLES
07.05.15 - 18:00 > 23:00
08.05 / 10.05 / 13.05 / 16.05.15 - 12:00 > 18:00
Pure Juice, a design platform created in the wake of Milan Design Week in 2013, offers the quintessence
of design made in Milan.
07.05.15
> 16.05.15
MONDO PASTA
EXHIBITION ESPACE DES POSSIBLES
07.05.15 - 18:00 > 23:00
08.05 / 10.05 / 13.05 / 16.05.15 - 12:00 > 18:00
Pasta making: seven young designers get to work on mamma’s recipes in a playful and colourful exhibition!
Project supported by Stefano Maffei and Spazio Subalterno.
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> 17.05.15
RGB TRATTORIA
INSTALLATION MAISON FOLIE
07.05.15 - 18:00 > 23:00
08.05 / 10.05 / 13.05 / 16.05.15 - 12:00 > 18:00
The Carnovsky collective features a special colour experience. After Milan Design Week, an installation in
red, green and blue to be discovered at Bistrot Folie.
09.05.15
EXPERIMENTAL NEGRONI
AVEC MAURIZIO STOCCHETTO (BAR BASSO)
WORKSHOP MAISON FOLIE
18:00
BY RESERVATION ONLY
Discover the secrets of Bar Basso’s cocktails. Come and mix, experiment and try what you’ve made under
the expert eye of Maurizio Stocchetto.
09.05.15
BREAD DAY
WORKSHOP / EXHIBITION MAISON FOLIE
14:30 > 16:30
May also marks the opening of Expo Milano 2015 on the theme ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life’.
Through a series of workshops, catch up with the taste of the European pavilion and celebrate a universal
food: bread.
11.05.15
> 12.05.15
LA SCALETTA
WORKSHOP / YOUTH MAISON FOLIE
1-DAY WORKSHOP FOR A CLASS
8 /11 YEARS
Fun and creative workshops with Jean-Paul Lespagnard inspired by Milan’s famous La Scala theatre.
16.05.15
LA BALERA
SOIRÉE AVEC MATTEO CIBIC EN COLLABORATION AVEC AMITIÉ PAR LA DANCE ASBL
DANCE / PARTICIPATIVE MAISON FOLIE
20:00
Flashing neon lights and a cocktail bar: discover the atmosphere of the seventies Balera. This traditional
Italian dance will be organised in collaboration with dance clubs from the local area.
17.05.15
BQ INTERACTIVE LUNCH
GASTRONOMY / PARTICIPATIVE MAISON FOLIE
12:00
10 €
Milanese collective Arrabeschi di Latte offers you a chance to discover the region’s products and those
who make them through a festive meal for a hundred people.
With the cooperation of regional producers: Quaghebeur Arthur & Christine, Evrard Benoît, La Ferme Blanche Pierre, Salamone Luigi & Pino,
La Ferme du Moulin, La Ferme du Bailli, Les légumes à la ferme, La ferme Legat…
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WEEK-END EN FOLIE - VIDEOZONE
EXHIBITION / INSTALLATION VIDÉO / PERFORMING ARTS
MAISON FOLIE
With Natalia De Mello, Arts² and thirty exhibiting
artists
WEEK-END EN FOLIE – HIDDEN PLACES
IN MONS
EXHIBITION / PHOTOGRAPHY/ WORKSHOP MAISON FOLIE
Photographers will go in search of hidden places
of Mons, and may end up encountering St George
and the dragon, accompanied by an angel! The
result is a collective work for all the family to enjoy.
Exhibition proposed by participants of the photographic workshops
of the Maison Folie led by Alessia Contu
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AILLEURS EN FOLIE :
MELBOURNE
FESTIVAL / PERFORMING ARTS / GASTRONOMY PARTY / WORKSHOP ET CONFERENCES / EXHIBITION MUSIC / CINEMA MAISON FOLIE
FREE ENTRANCE
In 2015, the Maison Folie offers an encounter
between Mons and Melbourne through Australia’s
greatest asset: its cultural diversity! Could
Melbourne, whose construction reflects successive
migratory flows, be Mons’ twin? So far away, yet
so similar and close? For the occasion, the Maison
Folie will turn labyrinthine. From tunnels to corridors,
mazes to laneways and meandering paths to
galleries, explore different acoustic and visual worlds,
blending contrasts and universal features.
Erkki Veltheim’s sound installation offers a slow
fusion of the Antipodes accompanied by the song
of migratory birds. Paul Gazzola takes our local
cultural scene and makes it foreign to us. Joe
Pickett, Gaëtan Rusquet and Damien Petitot guide
us on a mysterious urban safari in which we get
lost in the known. Hiromi Hotel Mons, a collective
creation remotely orchestrated by Hiromi Tango,
plunges us into a poetical, meditative and colourful
world. Or again, come for a ‘taster’ of the Melbourne
Shuffle dance with Aubéline Barbieux or of Australian
football with Fleur Sizaire…
Curator: Jude Anderson
With Jude Anderson, Bindi Cole, Daniel Crooks, Nadia Cusimano,
Paul Gazzola, Lyndal Jones, Sabina Maselli, Phuong Ngo, Katie
Sfetkidis, Hiromi Tango, Erkki Veltheim, creative producer - Joe
Pickett and associate curator - Deborah Ratliff.
Paola Bartoletti, Aubéline Barbieux, Romain Meun, Damien Petitot,
Gaetan Rusquet and Fleur Sizaire.
With the assistance of the Bureau International Jeunesse (BIJ),
Punctum, the Victorian State Government, the Australian Council
(Australian Government), and the City of Melbourne (Arts Victoria)
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JUDE ANDERSON
Jude Anderson, artistic director of
Punctum, has created contemporary shows
and initiated multidisciplinary artistic collaborations for over 25 years. The renowned
works she has created and co-created in
Australia and Europe pursue close ties with a
region, a close relationship with an audience
and an adventure in experimentation.
In 2004, Jude founded Punctum, a hybrid
and interdisciplinary arts company near
Melbourne.
Ailleur en Folie Melbourne Aubeline Barbieux Laneway
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HOME & AWAY:
MILBOURNE / QUÉBEC
FREE ENTRANCE
For the sixth Home and Away, discover today’s
Quebec, where nature and culture are both divided
and intermingled. You will find no clichés here,
but artists who combine intellect and instinct in
a programme that takes the form of an aesthetic,
artistic and philosophical examination of some of the
major issues that we all encounter.
Under a sky of fleur-de-lis against a blue
background, at the centre of a carpet of pure white
snow, burns a prodigious campfire inviting us to
the great festivity at the Montreal/Quebec Home
and Away. This bonfire is the heart of the event,
symbolising joy, hope and memory, and embodying
humanity’s spiritual attachment to the natural world.
In counterpoint to this glowing space, the artist
Aude Moreau exhibits a huge black hole lined with
coal, a symbol of the mining industry that once
made Belgium rich and that today occupies the
wide-open spaces of Quebec. A little further on,
an ice fishing cabin takes us one by one onto the
frozen waters of Lake Saint-Jean for an experience
in which the boundaries between presence and
absence, here and elsewhere, are blurred. It is in this
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WEEK-END EN FOLIE – ALL ON STAGE
BY THE COLLECTIVE TOUS-EN-SCÈNE
DANCE / INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS / WORKSHOP
MAISON FOLIE
Created in 2010, the Collective brings together
around a hundred dancers aged from 2 to 75 years!
They concoct an ambulatory show in the form of a
guided tour of a curio cabinet populated by strange
‘creatures’.
WEEK-END EN FOLIE – LA FABRIQUE
PRESENTS…
EXHIBITION / PERFORMING ARTS MAISON FOLIE
Carte blanche for La Fabrique de Théâtre,
the drama school that has become a crucial part
of the arts scene in Hainaut!
inner courtyard, around the fire that has brought us
together since the dawn of time, that the festive part
of the programme comes to life: food tasting, live
music, DJs and philosophical reflection workshops
for all ages. The programme then takes us to the
inner spaces of the Maison Folie to discover the rich
artistic territories of twenty events in dance, theatre,
performance, film, music, visual arts, digital arts and
culinary arts.
Curator: Jasmine Catudal
With Frédérick Gravel, Etienne Lepage, Sarah Berthiaume,
Dominique Pétrin, Geneviève and Matthieu, Julie-Andrée T, Étienne
Boulanger, the Bureau of the APA, Aude Moreau, Max-Otto Fauteux,
Catherine Gaudet, Avec pas d’casque, Sophie Bélair-Clément, Olivia
Boudreau, Jacynthe Carrier, Michel de Broin, Pascal Grandmaison,
Frederic Lavoie, Dear Criminals, L'Eau du bain, Felix-Antoine Boutin,
Érik Bordeleau…
With the assistance of OFFTA, Bureau International Jeunesse (BIJ),
the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the International
Youth Offices of Quebec (LOJIQ), the Quebec Ministry of Culture
and Communications, and the Federation Wallonia-Brussels.
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JASMINE CATUDAL
After studying art history, and then stage design at the
National Theatre School of Canada, Jasmine Catudal has
worked as a designer in the world of theatre, dance, opera and
circus for many well-known directors. Among other achievements, she designed the sets for the Thomas Adès opera
The Tempest, directed by Robert Lepage at the Metropolitan
Opera in New York. Having conceived the desire to bring about
a dialogue between different art forms in the same project,
she co-founded OFFTA in 2007. This experience has given
her a unique overview of Quebec’s young artists. Since 2012,
she has been joint artistic director at Factory C, where she is
responsible for national programming.
Ailleurs en Folie Montréal-Québec
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HOME & AWAY :
TOKYO
FREE ENTRANCE
The subject of the seventh Home and Away, Tokyo
is a city of contrasts between old traditions and
hypermodernity. With an introduction to Japanese
culture, the opportunity to discover new flavours,
manga, retrogaming, Harajuku fashion, robots,
Furoshiikii art, the tea ceremony, breakbeat music,
interactive installations and exhibitions, it’s as though
the entire archipelago is coming to Mons!
Between old traditions and hypermodernity, Tokyo
is a city of contrasts. From Shogi art to the latest
avant-garde, a whole megalopolis opens its doors…
Arigato!
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Curator: Kyomi Ichida et Thomas Duchatelet
With Grounddridim, Passerelle Japon, Hifana, Gwen Berrou,
Gustavo Miranda, Yves-Marie Vilain Lepage, Toshiko Oka, Koji Itose,
Jean Paul Brédif, Kota Iguchi, Valérie Douniaux, Bruno Destobbeleer,
Natsumi Hayashi, Yu Hirai, Asako Narahashi, Asako Shimizu, Mami
Kiyoshi, Yoko Ikeda and many others.
With the assistance of EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee and the BIJ
WEEK-END EN FOLIE – VRAI / FAUX JAPON
ARTS²
EXHIBITION / THEATRE/ MUSIC / GASTRONOMY
MAISON FOLIE
This Japan – perhaps they never went there…
This Japan – you will probably never return.
The students of ARTS2 left to take Japan by storm.
They present the booty from their exhibition.
IN THE CONTEXT OF PILSEN 2015, CAPITALE EUROPÉENNE
DE LA CULTURE
AILLEURS EN FOLIE :
PILSEN
FREE ENTRANCE
CABBAGE WITH CINNAMON
Discover the Alfa Theatre’s famous puppet theatre
or the energetic rock’n’roll of the group Kníry from
Pilsen in the Czech Republic. The Pilsen/Mons twin
show then brings together two artists from there
and two from here to play the game of identity and
otherness. Take the opportunity to have your first
FRI.
With an introduction to and the chance to discover
emblematic Japanese culture, and learning about/
trying out new flavours, manga, retrogaming,
Harajuku fashion, robots, Furoshiikii art, the tea
ceremony, breakbeat music, interactive installations
and exhibitions, a veritable archipelago of sounds
and images transforms the Maison Folie in Mons.
WEEK-END EN FOLIE – LANDING STAGE
BY THE VOLUNTARY CULTURAL AND
ARTISTIC PLATFORM POP UP
MUSIC / INSTALLATIONS
Pop up occupies the courtyard with its caravans
and thus ends its 2015 tour at the Maison Folie.
lesson in Czech, among other workshops, and try
the black pudding or cabbage with cinnamon – with
genuine draught Pilsener
Curator : Romain Černík
With the Alfa Theatre, Kníry, Drama Centre JOHAN, Petra Hauerovà,
Kateřina Sachrová, the University of West Bohemia, What’s your
favorite number, Debbi Love, Vaclac Greif, Vladimir Sosna, Milena
Jelinkova, Petra Hauerova…
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Kyomi Ichida was born in Osaka, Japan.
A graduate of the University of Chukyo in
Nagoya, she left her homeland in 1973 for
London, where she attended her first dance
classes. In 1977, she joined the Folkwang
Tanz Studio, and then Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal in 1982, where she had a
brilliant career. In 1998, she joined the Compagnie Thomas Duchatelet, and also gives
regular master classes, particularly in Japan
as part of the ‘Trait d'union’ project.
THOMAS DUCHATELET
Originally from Franco-Belgian Hainaut, Thomas Duchatelet created his dance
company in 1996 in the north of France, after
seven years at Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater
Wuppertal. From the start, the choreographer
has worked with a talented and established
team, combining artistic disciplines. Internationally, the company has acquired recognised
experience over the years in the development
of cultural cooperation projects, with a residency in Kinshasa (DRC), a French Season in
Washington and appearances at the Festival
au Carré in Mons, the Hue Festival in Vietnam
and other events.
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ROMAN ČERNÍK
Roman Černík, Director of the Johan
Centrum, born in 1964, is a university professor as well as a man of the theatre and
cultural activist. He teaches at the University
of West Bohemia in Pilsen and at the Charles
University in Prague. As artistic director of the
NGO Johan, an alternative arts centre, he is
one of the people behind the nomination of
Pilsen as European Capital of Culture 2015.
He is interested in research projects focusing
on the cultural policies of Czech cities.
Ailleurs en Folie Pilsen
Ailleurs en Folie, Regards de Femmes
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Traditional French bals musettes or
American country dancing and festive banquets, poetry or sports WALKING TOUR to
be explored on foot, horseback or bicycle or
in a pushchair, intriguing shows for surprising
venues, hidden heritage and mysterious legends, wellness salons for sound massages
and sailors’ tattoos, gardening workshops for
children, knitting or genealogy workshops –
the Great Eight has them all!
These are local events for inquisitive
tourists and families alike. With exploration WALKING TOUR, humour, good food
and quirky artistic creations, everyone can
devise their own personal route through the
festivities, alongside the people of Mons. The
whole community’s powers of imagination
will be in evidence for a whole week, based
on eight themes.
EMMANUEL VINCHON
Emmanuel Vinchon is interested in
geography (landscapes and the people that
inhabit them) and the way that it can elicit
stories, with the emphasis very much on the
often hidden imaginative powers of the
Montois. With the help of artists, from modest
creativity to complex works, these collectively
designed adventures often take the form of
exploration WALKING TOUR designed for
families. From the local to the exotic, and
in European Capitals of Culture from Lille
in 2004 and lille3000 to Mons 2015, routes
are devised and maps drawn for every great
occasion in order to open our horizons to
multiple cultures.
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In 2015, Mons will be European Capital of Culture: a once-in-a-lifetime event that will
change the city and region forever. An adventure in which all citizens are invited to participate, whatever their wishes, motivation and availability.
For within the packed programme on a European scale that has been put together
and refined over the last few months, some entry points on a very human scale have been
devised: projects that can be experienced and invented together, with all the inhabitants of
the Mons region.
Thus the Great Eight consists of eight weeks of festivities in eight territories in the
Greater Mons region, organised around a different main theme each time.
A big top, a ball, a banquet, artists’ routes, the rediscovery of the hidden history and
mysterious legends of the 19 municipalities of Greater Mons: all these events will showcase the local heritage, the public buildings, streets and rivers, and the forgotten legends.
The emphasis will be on travelling on foot, by bicycle or in a pushchair as you discover (or
rediscover) a Greater Mons that has been transformed by artists and local people.
From Flénu to Havré, from Maisières to Harveng: Great Eight planning meetings.
Since March 2013, the Great Eight projects have been designed and shaped by nearly
500 people, meeting weekly. Together they have been devising the collective and shared
events that will make Mons 2015 happen across Greater Mons.
Since March 2013, several hundred local people, working within local associations or
on their own individual impulse, have together been constructing the weeks that will form
the core of the Great Eight. Following the initial outline sketches early this year, the foundations of this neighbourhood project have thus been laid, the walls of the eight thematic
projects are gradually rising up, and numerous resident artists are set to add the roof,
working shoulder-to-shoulder with the people of Mons.
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CASTLE LIFE AND THE SENSES
PARTY / EXHIBITION / WALKING TOUR GHLIN
Sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing will be
awakened as you make your way around reinvented
castles and parks. Exhibitions in the dark,
readings in a Baroque salon, intimate concerts in
the branches, performances under the trees, or
splendid banquets in the heart of a clearing: the first
high point of the Great Eight will have something for
all of our senses.
La vie de château et les sens
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THE UNICORN AND RECYCLING
PARTY / MULTIDISCIPLINARY / WALKING TOUR
HYON / CIPLY / MESVIN
Sleek, magical, touching, determined… the mythical unicorn will travel through different worlds to the
sound of world music or recycled instruments, making its way through a maze of outsized costumes
and cartoon images. It is certain to plunge you into
a strange, imaginary world of suspended encounters and angels’ voice in the early morning.
MYSTERIOUS JOURNEYS
PARTY / MULTIDISCIPLINARY JEMAPPES / FLÉNU
During this week, you can expect a story of migration, arrivals and departures and a journey into the
past and the future, so take a guided plunge into
history, geography, sport or photography. Embark
on a journey outside the city, and stop off in 1900,
a time of splendour and popular dancing. Don’t
miss the bus: next stop mystery!
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TOPSY-TURVY
PARTY / WALKING TOUR / MULTIDISCIPLINARY MONS INTRAMUROS
The former bed of the River Trouille will be upsidedown, reversed, diverted – topsy-turvy. Amid history
and fantasy, inside and out, your task will be to
discover the unusual sites that have been chosen
for exhibitions on Dali and tattooing, a cello trio for
two and public banquets for 200, strange settings
and the grand finale, the Midsummer’s Eve Bonfire,
bringing the week to a close.
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MIDSUMMER’S EVE BONFIRE
PARTY / GASTRONOMY / PARTICIPATION PLACE NERVIENNE / GRAND-PLACE
Since the dawn of time, the world has been divided between three tribes: the water tribe, the land tribe and
the air tribe. Despite their different customs, all these tribes worship a single deity: the Sun. Once a year,
at the summer solstice, the tribes call a truce, cease all hostilities and proceed to the sacred hill to worship
the return of the Sun God. It is there that they find the keepers of the flame, who light a great bonfire at the
end of the ancestral ceremony.
The lighting of the bonfire, symbolising the return of spring and the promise of fertility and abundance
for the entire year, is a vital ceremony in the life of these tribes. Through a project bringing together many
associations, the Feux de la Saint-Jean association will organise music, children’s activities, a parade, ...
and a large bonfire. Associated with the Great Eight in 2015, the Midsummer’s Eve Bonfire will be held on
27 and 28 June.
Action initiated by the non-profit organisation Feux de la Saint-Jean asbl, specially associated for the occasion with the Great Eight.
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WATER AND GHOSTS
PARTY / PARTICIPATION / MULTIDISCIPLINARY
OBOURG/SAINT-DENIS/HAVRÉ
If a text translated from Latin had not shown that a
monk was spending time with a ghost in 1636, how
in 2015 would we have discovered the aquatic mysteries of the most picturesque scenery in Mons?
Go with the flow between abbey and mill and
between castle and park for some nocturnal walks
by the ghostly light of Chinese lanterns, along with
dancing and feasting, and hear the supernatural
stories that have always been associated with these
magical places.
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THE WIND IN THE FIELDS
PARTY / PARTICIPATION / MULTIDISCIPLINARY
HARMIGNIES / SPIENNES / VILLERS-SAINT-GHISLAIN / HARVENG / NOUVELLES / SAINT-SYMPHORIEN
The green lung of Mons will be puffing away all
week at wind instruments, wind turbines and kites.
Flint and straw, the songs of children and the cry of
the wind will form the background and soundtrack
to a week of gallivanting around, with photo exhibitions, outdoor film screenings, the gentle words of
a writer commissioned to write a book on the area
and quadrille dances. Come the landscapes to the
south of Mons and see which way the wind blows.
CUESMES, ALTITUDE 2015 M
PARTY / PARTICIPATION / MULTIDISCIPLINARY CUESMES
From the bottom of the mines to the top of the
Levant de Mons is a height difference of 2015
metres! Yodelling, equestrian shows, footpaths,
descents from the Alpine pastures, Swiss cuckoos
and high mountain WALKING TOURS are on the
programme, recalling the fact that during the Ice
Age, Mount Héribus and the Levant were part of
the Borinage’s own Alpine chain. The mountain
theme appears in the form of food, readings and
images: humour, hiking boots, ropes and carabiners
required.
SCARECROWS, PUPPETS AND GIANTS
PARTY / PARTICIPATION / MULTIDISCIPLINARY NIMY / MAISIÈRES
Dressed in rags, painted or draped in their finest
regalia, scarecrows, giants and puppets will come
to life in windows, on balconies, in gardens or in the
street. From the busy kitchen to an outdoor exhibition, the city will become a great puppet show and
shadow theatre, but also the grand finale of these
eight wacky weeks put together by hundreds of
people of Mons.
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Boussu, Colfontaine, Dour, Frameries, Hensies, Honnelles, Jurbise, Lens, Quaregnon,
Quévy, Quiévrain, Saint-Ghislain: in all, 12 municipalities from the Mons-Borinage district
have decided to take part in the European Capital of Culture programme. A project in the
west (of Mons) – the Grand Ouest – for a territory of central importance!
12 mayors, 12 municipalities, 12 sets of associations and facilities, 12 different
interpretations of the Capital of Culture, united by their warmth and generosity.
Like the Great Eight, designed and produced by hundreds of inhabitants of Greater
Mons on the theme of palpable landscapes and local and fantastical histories, the 12
municipalities wished to present their individual identities over a day or a weekend in a
joint programme: the Grand Ouest.
Unknown local stories, a heritage waiting to be brought back to life, poetry walks,
projects open to families, costumes to design, hidden heroes to unveil, first-rate artists to
promote, gourmet venues, worlds of ice, bicycle or carriage rides – these are some of the
approaches being dreamed up throughout Mons-Borinage.
The idea is that everyone should be able to find their place, and that each municipality in
turn should identify its strengths, unleash its inhabitants’ imaginations, and thus encourage
the organisation of some days which will make great experiences, in an area that everyone
living in Hainaut really should discover if they don’t know it already.
After all, who can claim to know every corner of villages ten centuries old – the back roads,
the hidden waterways, the natural parks and other little-known spots in western Mons?
The Grand Ouest will be a delight to construct. Together.
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PEOPLE...HERE
PARTICIPATION / EXHIBITION / WALKING TOUR / MULTIDISCIPLINARY
BOUSSU CENTRE
(MAISON COMMUNALE AND CASTLE GROUNDS)
Through exhibitions, Boussu will highlight its
inhabitants past and present. Everyone – traders
and sportspeople, pupils and pensioners – will
have a place in this event, based at the Maison
Communale and the grounds of Boussu castle.
VAN GOGH: CRAZY LEGEND
PARTICIPATION / EXHIBITION / WALKING TOUR / MULTIDISCIPLINARY
COLFONTAINE / CHARBONNAGE DE MARCASSE
A poetical route uses humour and fantasy to
present tales from the life of a painter who came to
Colfontaine as a Protestant preacher and lived in
contact with the miners there before becoming an
artist. Participatory theatre, cocktails for singles, an
exhibition, installations and artists in the Borinage...
all at the Marcasse colliery.
WITCHES, BOGEYMEN AND OTHERS
PARTICIPATION / PARTY / MULTIDISCIPLINARY / WALKING TOUR
FRAMERIES
On Ascension Day, a condemned witch, emerging
from the past, will cast a spell on the locals and
launch a joyous parade; mysterious characters,
bogeymen and goblins, will then guide the public.
Enchantment, a magical world, street performers
and festive music will bring the streets and alleys to
life, and the whole thing will end up with a banquet
and dancing. Get out your costumes or redesign
them with us – you’ll be needing them!
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FOLKLORE FESTIVAL
PARTICIPATION / PARTY / EXPOSITION / MULTIDISCIPLINARY
QUÉVY
A day of festivities, designed with the locals, giving
pride of place to the folklore and food trades of
Quévy: a food trail to explore, local products to
taste during a banquet, and an exhibition on the
history of folklore.
JURBISE IN WORDS
PARTY / PATICIPATION / WALKING TOUR / MULTIDISCIPLINARY
JURBISE
An invitation to discover Jurbise through poetry in
all its forms: readings in the woods, the local dialect, word play and art installations. By inviting local
people to demonstrate their talents, Jurbise offers
a truly poetical walk.
HENSIES, WORLD VILLAGE
PARTY / PARTICIPATION / MULTIDISCIPLINARY HENSIES
Hensies, which has historically welcomed more
than 21 communities from around the world, invites
you to explore its four villages on Saturday in a
bucolic procession – on foot, on horseback, by
bicycle, train, wagon or a multi-person, cyclable
vehicle called a cuistax – and discover enriching
musical, culinary and craft traditions. On this first
day of summer, which is also World Music Day,
experience a mini-festival of ethnic concerts en
famille in a spirit of friendship and brotherhood.
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TREASURES OF THE BLACK PYRAMIDS
PARTY / PARTICIPATION / WALKING TOUR / MULTIDISCIPLINARY
QUAREGNON
Behind this mysterious title worthy of a Jules Verne
novel lies a day full of ideas to for (re)discovering
Quaregnon from new and original angles, centred
on the riches of the Borinage: a treasure hunt,
interactive walks, enacted historical scenes, a
humorous bicycle parade and a lantern ball – all
based around the slag heaps serving as pyramids
and the town hall serving as a lighthouse attracting
visitors from afar – plus a closing banquet complete
sound and light show.
MONEUSE
QUIEVRAIN / HONNELLES
These two border towns join forces to stage the
famous story of the eighteenth-century outlaw
Moneuse. There will be a creative route between
the two, and the whole thing will end with a show,
some dramatised scenes and an open-air banquet.
PAUL CUVELIER: PATHS OF WONDER
PARTY / PARTICIPATION / EXPOSITION / BD / MULTIDISCIPLINARY
LENS
The theme will be the comic strip, particularly with
reference to Lens artist Paul Cuvelier. An exhibition
will present his work and the range of his immense
talent through original paintings and plates, as
well as those produced by an array of artists in his
honour. This is an opportunity to make a family trip
to Lens and experience adventure (the Redskins,
the circus) and the flavours of the lands visited in
Cuvelier’s comic strips.
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SAINT GHISLAIN: GOING WITH THE FLOW
SAINT-GHISLAIN
Did you know that an ancient waterway lies hidden
under the motorway? It will come into its own
and show itself to the world once more over this
weekend. The programme includes a discovery route along the former bed of the Haine, an
exhibition about the waterways, an urban safari of
local fauna and flora and artistic performances. In
2015, immerse yourself in the city centre and just
discover an undreamt-of Saint-Ghislain.
DOUR ON ICE
PARTY / PARTICIPATION / MULTIDISCIPLINARY DOUR
There’s a festive feel in Dour not just in the summer
but in the winter too! A surprisingly Arctic event
will highlight Dour’s cultural and sporting heritage,
focusing on the Belvédère site. An opportunity to
discover the joys of winter and mark the end of the
Grand Ouest in style. And throughout the year…
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EUROPEAN MONS: A GENEALOGY
PARTICIPATION / INSTALLATION MONS-BORINAGE
Mons is European! An interactive world map will plot
the movements that have allowed the city to attract
families from all over the world. With the help of
genealogy associations from Mons and its region,
visitors will be able to display their origins (national
or international) and trace their history back through
the centuries in a great blending of memories and
influences. The individual stories will combine with
the story of Mons’ European identity. Available at the
different locations of the Great Eight, the map will
show the cities and towns of origin of the people
of Mons, from Sicily to Poland and from France
to Morocco – but also the dream journeys of the
younger generations in the years to come.
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I’D LIKE TO BUY
OR BOOK A TICKET
Via our website www.mons2015.eu
Most events requiring payment will go on sale over
time, starting on 8 October 2014.
At the Capital’s headquarters VisitMons
Grand-Place, Mons (open from December 2014).
Before December 2014: Théâtre Royal,
Grand-Place, Mons.
Open 7 days a week from 10am until 8pm
+32 (0)65 39 59 39 or [email protected]
practical
information
I WANT TO KNOW
EVERYTHING
Visit our website, sign up to our newsletter and
follow us on social networks. www.mons2015.eu
Our different information points
— Throughout the region: cultural venues, tourist
information offices in our towns and partner
organisations
— In Mons: a new site will be opening its doors
in December 2014. VisitMons, located in the
Grand-Place, will be the place to go for tourist
and cultural information about the Capital
(Open 7 days a week from 10am until 8pm.). At the Manège de Maubeuge
Rue de la Croix, 59600 Maubeuge. +33 (0)3 27 65 65 40 or [email protected]
Packages
Buy a single ticket and go to the events of your
choice
Buy a PASS * and make the most of the Capital!
—— PASS SOLO = individual pass.
From 3 to 21 entry tickets.
—— PASS DUO = pass for two people.
—— PASS FAMILLE = pass for a family
(minimum 1 adult + 2 children and maximum
2 adults + 5 children (under 18).
—— PASS MANÈGE = pass exclusively available
to those with the Manège Mons/Maubeuge
2013-2014 passport.
* The PASS gives you a preferential rate and priority
access to performances. It is transferable, flexible
and valid throughout the year. Please note, the PASS
is not an entry ticket.
Prices Type of pass
Number Total
Price/ticket
of entry price
tickets
Pass SOLO 3 248
(1 and more)
5
40
8
7 568
9 728
12 968
211688
Pass DUO 6 427
(2 and more)
10
70
7
14 987
181267
241687
422947
Pass FAMILLE9
36 4
(3 and more)
15
60
4
21 844
271084
361444
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I’M COMING
TO MONS
The Mons 2015 Foundation has developed a great
mobility policy thanks to its network of partners,
including SNCB, Brussels Airlines, Brussels South
Charleroi Airport, Thalys and the TEC Hainaut.
By plane
—— Brussels South Charleroi Airport : special
shuttle busses to Mons. www.flipco.com
—— SN Brussels Airlines : 10% discount (excluding
taxes and supplements) for travellers coming from
Europe to Brussels. www.brusselsairlines.com
By train
—— In Belgium : SNCB network (special Mons 2015
offers and B-Excursion programme).
www.sncb.be/mons2015
—— From abroad : direct Paris-Mons train with
Thalys. The Thalys “toute gare belge” (any
Belgian station) , lets you get to Mons from
Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Aachen, Cologne and
Düsseldorf. www.thalys.com
City centre 10 minutes on foot from Mons
station.
By bus
From neighbouring towns and villages: 21 lines.
Search for your route or timetables. www.infotec.be
By car
The city of Mons is connected by the E19/E42
motorway, exit 24.
I’M PARKING
IN MONS
Avoid parking in the city centre and choose the easy
option!
—— Free, supervised car park on the outskirts
of the city, signposted from exit 24 of the
E19-E42 with the international P+R sign.
Park & Ride at weekends and on bank holidays
(from 24/01/2015).
—— Free shuttle busses to the city centre every
8 mins. from 9am to 11pm. www.infotec.be
I’M TRAVELING
AROUND MONS
On foot
Lots of places to visit concentrated in the historic heart
of Mons, a pleasure to explore on foot.
By bike
There are approximately 62km of cycletracks in Mons.
www.mons.be
By bus
4 free Mons Intra Muros routes every 15 mins. from
Monday to Saturday, 7am to 9pm. www.infotec.be
I SUPPORT
MONS 2015
Support Mons 2015 and boost your business!
A tailormade partnership is at your disposition.
+32 (0)487 85 90 03 [email protected]
MONS 2015
FOR EVERYBODY
The residents relations team is available to the people of Mons and contacts with charities, educational
and community organisations to help them raise
everyone’s awareness about the Capital’s programme. [email protected]
For people with specific needs, including those with
disabilities, there are a number of solutions available
to welcome and guide you towards adapted artistic
events. Information and details will be available in
our quarterly publications. Look out for the following
symbols: XXX.
More info about accessibility:
+32 (0)497 43 92 12
[email protected]
2015 WAYS
TO TAKE PART!
Mons 2015 is first and foremost a festival
in which you are the hero. The ambassador.
The designer. The star. There are at least 2015
different ways of getting involved in the project!
http://2015facons.mons2015.eu
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The Foundation
Mons 2015
A Public Utility Foundation was formed
to drive Mons 2015, CEC, at the initiative of the
Federation Wallonia-Brussels, the Walloon Region,
the Province of Hainaut and the City of Mons.
The Foundation Mons 2015 guarantees artistic
independence of the Commissioner General within
the restraints of the budgetary resources allocated
to it. The Foundation Mons 2015 is autonomous
and managed by a Board of Directors chaired by
a pluralistic personality whose independence is
recognized by all, Guy Quaden, former Governor of
the National Bank.
The funds hoarded since the establishment of the
Foundation are managed by the King Baudouin
Foundation.
YVES VASSEUR
GENERAL COMMISSIONER
Born in Jemappes and graduated in Social
Communication and Theatre Studies, Yves Vasseur
was a journalist at RTBF Mons from 1974 to 1985,
where he took an active interest in the Hainaut
cultural life. He become then coordinator of the
Drama Centre Hennuyer from 85 to 90, and from
September 1990 to December 2009, Executive
Director of the Théâtre du Manège, National Theatre
of Maubeuge. Author of numerous literary publications, comics and theater, he was appointed
in March 2004 as commissioner of the “Mons,
European Capital of Culture 2015” project named
the winner in February 2010.
PHILIPPE DEGENEFFE
GENERAL DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
Philippe Degeneffe joined the Foundation in
December 2012. At the origin “Events Project
Manager, Facilities & Urban Contemporary Music”,
he accepted the office of Deputy Commissioner
General in January 2014. Animator and then
Director of the Regional Cultural Centre of the
Centre for 15 years, he actively participated in the
creation in La Louvière society Franco Dragone
with whom he worked eleven years on major international shows. Culture and arts projects are true
passions for him which he has devoted his career.
Mons 2015 was for him an unavoidable adventure
he would not be missed.
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MARIE NOBLE
ARTISTIC DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
Director of International Relations of the cross-border cultural centre the “manège.mons” and deputy
director for Mons 2015 since 2007, Marie has 15
years of experience in organizing cultural events.
She has a background in journalism, communication and event management and has worked as
a cabinet chief for the President of the Brussels
French speaking Parliament. She has both a degree
in Philosophy and Germanic Philology.
ANNE-SOPHIE CHARLE
GENERAL SECRETARY
Degreed in political science, Anne-Sophie Charle
joined the Office of the Mayor of the City of Mons
in 2001 to become Chief of Staff from 2004 to
2012. She participated in the preparation of the
nomination of the city as CEC since the premises.
Building on this experience, Mons and passionate
about the socio-economic development of the area,
she joined the Foundation in 2013 to coordinate the
year 2015 outside the art field. Secretary General of
the Foundation, its mission is the administrative and
financial supervision of the Foundation, coordination of municipal matters covered by the Capital
year and private partnerships.
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Mons 2015:
a sustainable
project
Mons 2015 reinvents the City by limiting
the environmental impact of its events and by
creating ways of participating that will not stop in
2015. Find out for example the citizen initiatives
led by Café Europa, that eco-designed digital
area that invites you to share a vegetable patch,
repair your old things or travel virtually across
Europe.
Join in the collective construction of the
park design at the former military bakery, a fun
meeting and discussion place dedicated to the
environment and sustainable development. Or visit
our atmospheric venues where good food is locally
sourced, organic and fair-trade. Come and join
in this amazing adventure, which brings together
social, economic and cultural organisations in Mons,
the Grand Huit and the Grand Ouest, young, old,
able-bodied and disabled, aesthetes and novices in
one big party. Mons 2015 is sustainable!
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I’M LABELED
MONS 2015.
AND YOU?
Mons 2015 wants to get everybody involved.
This resulted in a large number of labeled
projects and products that carry the quality,
originality and values of Mons 2015.
PROJECTS
Exposition Luc Tuymans (04.10.14 > 04.01.15,
Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée, La
Louvière) / Expo Riga (21.11.14 > 08.02.15, Musée
Ianchelevici, La Louvière) / Mademoiselle Mons
et Mister Hainaut (23.11.14) / Cet obscur objet du
délire. Dali et ses muses (Musée des Beaux-Arts
de Tournai) / Cycle conférence Maison Arc en
Ciel (Ath) / Projet Disart (Partenamut, Molenbeek),
Exposition Nicolas Destino (16.02 > 30.04.15,
Maison du Design, Mons) / Cabaret des Curiosités
(11>13.03.15) et Bartabas (27.03 > 01.04.15, Le
Phénix, Scène Nationale de Valenciennes) / La
Bible, patrimoine de l’humanité (24.04 > 26.05.15,
UCL Mons) / Circuits découvertes Unesco (05.15,
MAC’s, Grand-Hornu) / Mons Harley days - Rallye
HOG Benelux (12 > 14.06.15) / Projet Chamb’Art
(15.06 > 01.07.15, Château d’Havré) / Summer
festival (10 > 12.07.15, Lotto Mons Expo) / Festival
«Music in the Park» (22 > 23.08.15, Saint-
Symphorien) / Exposition Culture de l’Innovation
(01.09 > 01.12.15, Bois du Cazier,
La Louvière) / Journée Mondiale des sourds
(26.09.15, Mons) / Beatles day (10.15, Lotto Mons
Expo) / Défilé de mode - Porteuses de projet
Jemappes (14>08.11.15, Cuesmes) / Concert
de Noël (12.15, Frameries) / Le livre « Voyage en
Oïlie » (La Roulotte théâtrale, Elouges) / Le Passage
des découvreurs (Le Pass, Frameries) / Scènes
à 2.3… Du trac au tac ! (La Fabrique de Théâtre,
La Bouverie) / Projet ACCESS (Art Concept
Group, Mons) / Salon du Bon Vouloir (Cercle d’Art
Le Bon Vouloir, Mons), Expositions ART@ING
(04+06+09.15, ING) / « Arts du feu de la région
du Centre » (03 > 06.09.15, Ancien Hospice St
Jacques, Le Roeulx) / Festival International du
Film Francophone de Namur (02 > 09.10.15,
Namur) / Bernar Venet à Beloeil (Château
de Beloeil) / EU-AFRICA B2B FORUM par EU
Africa Chamber of Commerce (06 > 08.05.15,
Mons) / E-MOnsTIONs!, Création Plurisdisciplinaire
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UMONS – 9 PROJECTS
4_All_access / Architecture et Culture : lectures
et écritures de la Ville / Citygate / Citylight / La voix
des Anges / Revivre Jacques du Broeucq / De Mons
vers le Nouveau Monde / Rencontre Internationale
d’orchestres Universitaires / Théâtre des Savoirs
UCL MONS – 12 PROJECTS
PROJETS UCL
La Figure de Saint-Georges et du Dragon / Mons, Terre Musicale / À l’âge Baroque / De corpore - Images et Imageries du corps soignant
et soigné / Cellule avec Voix : Lumière
de la poésie Verlainienne (1873-1875) / J’aurai 20
ans en 2015 : Autour de l’œuvre de Sophocle et
de Wajdi Mouawad / Analyse d’une organisation
culturelle éphémère et de ce qu’elle produit comme
phénomènes durables : le cas de Mons 2015 (Joanne
Jojczyk) / Les seuils et portes de Mons / Analyse de
la médiatisation d’une mémoire Culturelle autour de
l’événement 2015 / Festival de musique étudiante sur
le campus de l’UCL Mons. PROJETS EN PARTENARIAT
Dictionnaire historique de Mons et de la
région / Coaching d’étudiants en vue d’un travail
journalistique axé sur l’événement Mons 2015
communication / Organisation du 2015 Moocs
European stakeholders summit.
ARTS² - 22 PROJECTS
Ouverture du 24 Janvier / Expositions
d’art numérique / Installations
urbaines / Piétonnier / Innovation Ready
Made / Ailleurs en Folie et Weekends
En Folie / Ateliers avec des Artistes
Invités / Mon(S) Idéal / Ambassade Maison
géante à L’école / Projet Lassus / Labellisation
d’évènements / Médiateurs / Projet City
Sonic / Lectures (Blancs et Noirs ¼h,
et Lectures Juridiques) / Projets Patrimoine
musical Montois / Scènes ouvertes en été / Germinal / Workshop Archi Espace Public / Projet Mons Street reView - Xtnt / Projet Atelier
Orchestre avec Pilsen
PRODUCTS
Restaurant Le Marchal > Porc al berdouille
(proposé sous vide) / Au bas de Messines > Bas
Van Gogh / Aux Mille saveurs > Apéro du
dragon / Cachemire > Collier Doudou / Costoon
Cocave > Plaques émaillées / Desobery > Petits
sachets biscuits / Dico-Trivial Pursuit et Puissance 4 / Encore et encore > Boule de songe > Louisa
Consiglio / Jacquy cange / les jeunes fromagers
affineurs > Fromage à la car d’or / La Montoise > Bière La Trinité / Les Thélices de Sophie > Thé sur mesure / Mon
ami le chocolatier > Pavé montois / Mons où
venir > Médaille / Mr Cartes de visite > Montre / Petit
pois > Puzzle dragon / Quality Design > Marque
page dragon / Ruffus > Méthode Champenoise / T
sur mesure > Thé sur mesure / Visual
impact > Carte touristique digitale / Château
d’Elohim > Vin de roisin (rhubarbe) / Brasserie St
Feuillen > Bière La Car d’Or
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ING BELGIUM
‘MAIN SPONSOR’
OF MONS 2015
Brussels, 7 October 2014
ING Belgium is closely associated with this great
cultural event. As a direct retail bank, ING Belgium
wishes to make art and culture accessible to all.
i’m partner .
and you?
At ING Belgium culture occupies a place of choice.
In addition to host a magnificent collection of art
works, the bank also organises exhibitions, for
example, “The Power of Object(s)” currently showing
at the ING Art Center, Place Royale 6 in Brussels,
until 11 January 2015. Entry tickets are on sale
online via “Ticket Online”.
The bank also supports many initiatives in the art
and cultural world in Belgium, such as Art Brussels,
the Reine Elisabeth Musical Chapel as well as
many summer festivals, including Couleur Café,
Francofolies de Spa, Festival de Dour, les Ardentes
and so on.
ING Belgium wishes also to participate in the
economic growth of a city or a whole region. This
partnership proves clearly our willingness to anchor
our presence in the Mons area and to fully support
its economy.
“Mons 2015” will allow the city and its surrounding
area to develop in the socio-economic sphere and
to benefit from significant returns on the cultural,
touristic and media fronts.
***
ING Belgium SA/NV
ING Belgium SA/NV services all banking customers
with a wide range of financial products and via the
distribution channel of their choice. ING Belgium
SA/NV employs 8,975 FTE* and is a full subsidiary
of ING Bank N.V. which services 32 million private,
business and institutional clients in more than 40
countries in Europe, North America, Latin America,
Asia and Australia.
* End June 2014
FOR MORE INFORMATIONS:
ING BELGIUM, PRESS DEPARTMENT
+32 (0)2 547 22 94
[email protected]
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BELGIAN NATIONAL LOTTERY
‘MAIN SPONSOR’
OF MONS 2015
2015, the right number
Culture in Belgium would not have the same colours
without the Belgian National Lottery. It is an unshakeable support and has never been content with
just one or two industry sectors as is often the case
with corporate sponsors. Thus it carries out the general interest role it has set for itself and redistributes
among society the gains it collects from its different
games. The National Lottery, therefore, has a natural
affinity with Mons 2015 since this European Capital
of Culture’s project is a multiple one. In the artistic
domain, the ranges are from heritage to creation,
events and activities in the public space to civil
and digital projects, and from the deployment of
new infrastructure to territorial development. By
supporting Mons 2015, The National Lottery is not
only promoting the arts and culture but also a global
project of socio-economic conversion.
WWW.LOTERIE-NATIONALE.BE/SUBSIDES
[email protected]
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MONS 2015 COMPANIES
‘MAIN SPONSOR’
OF MONS 2015
Become a member!
2015 companies! This is the symbolic goal set
by the Club Mons 2015 Companies to unite the
economic fabric of the region around Culture’s
European capital. As of right now, about 700 bosses have realised the potential of companies: every
euro invested means 6 euro of benefits for the
local economy, and the opportunity to expand their
network to a European level. Our members believe
that Mons 2015 is a great tool for the mediation and
publicity of an even larger project: the development
and socio-economical regeneration of Mons and its
region. Membership to the Club is tax deductible,
ensures unparalleled visibility and grants access
to a platform that aggregates all economic sectors
involved. Bring your prospects to high-value added
events and create excitement around your business. Join the Club!
WWW.2015ENTREPRISES.EU
POL-EMILE MEUR
+32 (0)494 11 34 80
[email protected]
MAIS IL EST OÙ LE SOLEIL ?
AT MONS 2015
The 100% Belgian brand for women, easy to live in
and coloured, dear to those who flitter between the
thousand lives of modern women, unites the major
creative event of 2015: Mons, European Capital of
Culture.
For Mais il est où le Soleil?, this international
partnership signs a strong commitment: espousing
Belgian cultural vitality that logically develops from
the approach close to clients of the brand, in touch
with the desires and innovations of its aficionadas. By this collaboration, Mais il est où le Soleil?
aims to introduce the public to fashion, gathered
in Belgium, and from France, the Netherlands,
Switzerland and Germany. The entire staff organizing the event will be dressed in the brand during
the exhibits and runway shows in the city, as
reflected in silhouettes that can be combined with
pieces mixed or adopted alone; skirts, dresses and
of knitwear so flattering to feminine curves; with a
touch of spirited hues that seduce the”Mais il est
où le Soleil?” customers.
The team of stylists give a fresh booth to the brand,
and fans of Mais il est où le Soleil? rediscover the
core of their creative thinking, following the growth
of fashion while remaining true to its DNA and characteristics. Cotton, silk blends, super soft viscose,
the spotlight is on elegance, and the creative artists
are true to the elegant and distinctive flair that
makes the Mais il est où le Soleil? style light and
positive. A great flight forward, free and imaginative,
in the image of Mons 2015.
WWW.OUSOLEIL.COM
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GOOGLE & THE
MUNDANEUM IN MONS:
WHERE THE INTERNET
MEETS ITS ROOTS!
Mons 2015’s motto is “Where technology meets
culture.” Together, Google and the Mundaneum
are working to turn the catchy phrase into a
reality.
Decades before the creation of the World Wide
Web, Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine envisaged
a paper archival system of the world’s information.
They built a giant international documentation centre called Mundaneum, with the goal of preserving
peace by assembling knowledge and making it
accessible to the entire world. For us at Google, this
mission sounds familiar. “We have found our roots
in supporting the Mundaneum,” declared Thierry
Geerts, Country Director at Google Belgium, at the
launching of this partnership in 2012, in presence of
then Belgian Prime Minister and Mayor of Mons, Elio
Di Rupo.
The Mundaneum’s home region is also home to
a Google data centers, located in the southern
Belgian village of St. Ghislain. In many ways, the
modern data center has replaced Otlet and La
Fontaine’s paper cards; it provides the electric and
electronic backbone for the modern Internet.
Over the past two years, he collaboration between
Google and the Mundaneum has deepened and
strengthened. Our initial ambitions were modest to support lectures and exhibitions on the history of
the Internet. The Mundaneum became Belgium’s
first partner with Google’s Cultural Institute , our
Paris-based institute that aims to revolutionize the
way archives are curated and presented.
Today, we work to support a strong community relations outreach with the Mundaneum, funding a wide
variety of philanthropic projects. These including
sponsoring an interactive TV-show “2015 Histoires”
on the local channel TeleMB to helping build an online social network devoted to the young musicians
of the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia. Other
beneficiaries include nonprofit associations L’ArtChétype, Droits et Devoir, Entr’Aide, Co-nnexion
coworking, Le Manège, the Fab lab at UMons. Our
goal is to strengthen the region’s technology, online
culture, and science education.
Since the beginning of our partnership, the
Mundaneum has modernized, become a centre for
digital culture. It now offers seminars and workshops
about Internet issues. In June 2015, it will inagurate
a brand new archives center, leisure space, and a
“Café Europa”!
Google is working with the Mundaneum to support
Mons 2015. Mons becomes a European capital
of culture next year, ushering in 12 months of festivities. One of Google’s two major European data
centers is located just down the road from the city,
making us a major local investor and employer. It is
only natural that we want to help put some sparkle
into the city’s ambitious capital of culture plans.
Already this year, we have launched something special and sparkling - new Indoor Street View images.
Street View cars and trikes captured new imagery
of some of Mons’s most famous buildings - both
their exteriors - and for the first time, their interiors.
These include the splendid Grand Place, including
the inside of the the City Hall, the Collégiale Sainte
Waudru, and the BAM art museum.
Throughout the coming year and a half, we’ll
continue to support the Mons 2015 adventure, in
particular by working with our longtime partner.
The Mundaneum plans an exciting “Mapping
Knowledge” exhibition. Together, we are bringing
high-level speakers to the city to explore Internet
issues. Our own chief Internet evangelist and “father
of the Internet” Vint Cerf recently visited and presented his vision of the future to a packed audience
at the city’s 600 seat Manege Theater. Mons’ time
on the big stage of European culture promises many
more exciting events.
Bill Echikson, Head of Community Relations,
Europe, Google
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BRUSSELS AIRLINES,
OFFICIAL PARTNER OF
MONS 2015
With more than 60 European destinations, advantageous travel options and high flight frequencies,
Brussels Airlines is the ideal partner for Mons 2015.
Those who travel to the Cultural Capital 2015, can
benefit from preferential fares on the airline’s flights.
As Belgium’s largest carrier and as an ambassador of
the country, Brussels Airlines is an obvious addition to
the list of official partners of Mons 2015. The airline will
act as an ambassador for Mons 2015 abroad to attract
as many visitors as possible.
Foreign visitors who opt for Brussels Airlines, not only
have the choice out of four different travel options with
return fares starting at 69€ return, they can also benefit
from a 10 percent discount on most fares, via the website mons2015.eu.
As the official airline partner, Brussels Airlines will welcome many artists, VIP visitors and official delegations
on board its flights. The in-flight magazines b.there and
b.spirit will focus on the many cultural activities during
the entire period of the event.
Brussels Airlines looks forward to support Mons2015
as the official airline partner. In recent years the airline
has built a strong reputation as partner of sports and
cultural events in Belgium and is convinced that, with its
expertise and qualitative flight offer, it can contribute to
the success of Mons2015.
For further information: www.brusselsairlines.com.
BRUSSELS AIRLINES
CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS:
+32 (0)2 723 84 00
+32 (0)2 723 85 11 +32 (0)2 723 84 55
SNCB
SNCB, as primary actor of mobility in Belgium,
is a partner of Mons in 2015 and is committed to adapt
the train offer and its commercial products in function
of the activities throughout the year 2015.
More info soon on www.sncb.be/mons2015.
BRUSSELS SOUTH
CHARLEROI AIRPORT
Just thrilled… Brussels South Charleroi Airport is genuinely thrilled to join the major cultural event of 2015.
Brussels South Charleroi Airport strongly supports
this outstanding project which, among many things, promotes creativity, dynamism and know-how in Belgium.
We are convinced that the wide range of activities
offered for the occasion will delight grown-ups and
children alike.
In order for you to enjoy this event with your family,
friends and colleagues we propose no less than 141
air routes to our airport, as well as a shuttle service that
will lead you to the doorsteps of the European Capital of
Culture (reservations on www.flibco.com).
SA BSCA
SARA STAOUI
CORPORATE & PUBLIC RELATION
RUE DES FRÈRES WRIGHT, 8
6041 GOSSELIES
TEL: +32 (0)71 25 12 60
FAX: +32 (0)71 25 18 48
MAIL: [email protected]
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THALYS INVITES YOU
TO MONS
Just 1h22 from Paris with Thalys from €22, Mons
is also reachable from Amsterdam, Rotterdam,
Lille, Aachen, Cologne and Dusseldorf with the “All
Belgian Stations” ticket which includes the Thalys
journey and the internal Belgian rail journey.
Since its creation in 1996, Thalys has played a
key role in redefining European geography. The
first high-speed rail operator to cross the borders
of four European countries (France, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Germany), Thalys has shortened
distances and promoted mobility, a model of both
multiculturalism and innovation. A true innovator,
Thalys has created an exceptional service which
is today considered a benchmark for rail operators
worldwide, with its signature slogan “Welcome to
our World”: passenger comfort, a warm multilingual welcome, high quality catering, the Comfort 1
service package, new communication technologies
(all Thalys carriages offer on-board WiFi, a service
provided by 21Net and activated by Nokia Siemens
Networks)…
By promoting exchanges of all kinds in a network
of exceptional cultural density, Thalys epitomizes
this “easy access exoticism” of which Europeans are
so fond of during their city breaks. Increasingly they
want to get away from the everyday, go and get to
know their European neighbours, feel the pulse of
other cities, meet people in restaurants, courtyards,
artists’ workshops… In this respect Thalys helps
build “enriching” partnerships that energize
communities, encouraging new encounters and
creativity. A partner of cultural players, Thalys
wishes to promote cross-border discovery, facilitate
appreciation, transmission and sharing of our
European heritage, support creativity and the arts
and preserve diversity. Over 10 years, its partnership
policy has brought various benefits for passengers
(information, reductions, free entry, special invitations) and also taken the form of direct support for
institutions and cultural players.
Because economic dynamism and artistic vitality
benefit from contact with others and stronger
links, Thalys is delighted to support Mons 2015.
Mons 2015, a multifaceted approach to the arts,
culture and innovation! Thalys is a partner.
And you?
TO FIND OUT MORE:
THALYS.COM/BE/EN/DESTINATIONS/MONS
INSTAGRAM.COM/THALYS
TWITTER.COM/THALYS_FR
TEC
Taking part in mons 2015 is an obvious step for
public transport operator tec hainaut. With an
expected two million visitors, mobility is a significant
challenge. The city of mons and tec hainaut will
offer a free park & ride at weekends and on public
holidays from late january onwards. Every 8 minutes,
a shuttle service will take visitors to the city centre.
In addition, the service on the main bus routes connecting mons with the surrounding communities will
be significantly reinforced during the opening and
closing celebrations.
Tec hainaut has been a partner from day one. Back
in 2010, a bus bearing the slogan mons 2015, c’est
capital! Was used to convey the european panel
responsible for choosing which city would become
the capital of culture in five years’ time. Other buses
have been on the roads with the event’s branding
since then – those of mons intra muros, belgium’s
only free urban service. In a few months, these ‘city
buses’ will be replaced with new vehicles, emblazoned with the slogan en 2015, je suis montois. Et
toi ? (‘In 2015, i’ll be from mons. What about you?’)
As a company committed to the community, tec
hainaut participates actively in the social life of the
region by supporting events such as this. Above all,
though, it is on a daily basis that public transport
plays an important part in people’s lives. Passenger
numbers have doubled in less than 15 years, rising
from 20 to 41 million journeys per year on the tec
hainaut network. This covers much of the province,
from anderlues to comines. With 750 employees
and 300 buses, the company is among the leading
businesses in the region.
TEC HAINAUT SPOKESPERSON:
AURÉLIE DESSART
[email protected]
+32 (0)494 04 68 92
+32 (0)65 38 88 91
WWW.INFOTEC.BE
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RTBF
The RTBF, the public broadcaster of the French
Community of Belgium, a natural partner of Mons
2015 and a public multimedia operator. And more.
The RTBF is the leading partner of Mons 2015. And
its first. In practice this means that Mons 2015 is
a major priority for all RTBF media in 2015. Media
which includes:
—— Five radio stations which, taken together, are
the leading Belgian French-language radio
network with a 35.2% market share and
1,177,629 listeners a day(1) and which include
the Wallonia-Brussels Federation’s leading
radio station
—— Three television stations which together had a
22.7% audience share between January and
September 2014(2)
—— Internet sites with 283,947 unique visitors a day
(June-August 2014 average), with 3,483,140
videos viewed and 908,617 audio files a month.
And social networks with 1,400,000 fans on
Facebook(3).
Taken together, RTBF brands have an audience of
2.9 million people every day, that is, 68% of the
population and a 91% monthly average(4).
And the same passion to inform, educate and entertain is ever present.
Mons 2015 provides the RTBF with a venue to
demonstrate that it is truly an essential audio-visual
leader for information and culture with a local pres-
ence through its project, production and broadcast
channel capabilities and its international partners.
Given that one of the RTBF’s primary missions is
to promote heritage and cultural activities in the
Wallonia-Brussels Federation, it made perfect sense
that it partner with the Mons 2015 Foundation. The
RTBF wants to be involved as a special, attentive
and active full-fledged partner. For its listeners, its
television viewers and its internet users. In other
words, for Wallonia-Brussels Federation citizens.
They are its DNA and its source of legitimacy.
The RTBF works hard every day to be a leading partner in everything happening in the large cities and
the regions, for the greater enjoyment of everyone,
everywhere in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
Its goal can be summarised with a number: nearly
900 partnerships were signed in 2013. That is, 900
events, big and small. For greater social bonds
and more reasons to enjoy living in the WalloniaBrussels Federation.
The care the RTBF and its media will bring to Mons
2015 goes beyond Mons itself. It isn’t just about
programmes and partnerships, even over the entire
year. It’s a commitment to the work done the Mons
2015 Foundation to make this great project, with
over 300 events, into a constructive and durable
part of the economic and cultural development of
the Region and of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
[email protected]
(1) CIM Radio, South, 12+, Mon-Sun, 5h-5h, W2014-2 (2) CIM
Audimétrie TV, Live +0, 4+ guests, 2014 (3) CIM Internet & RTBF
survey (4) CIM PMP 2011-2012 strategic survey (universe 12+)
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LE SOIR,
MEDIA PARTNER
OF MONS 2015
The newspaper Le Soir, the leading Frenchlanguage daily, is pleased and honoured to be associated with Mons European Capital of Culture 2015.
For 125 years, our newspaper’s passionate concern
has been to reflect what is really going on in the
world. But that world it starts in our own streets,
communities, cities and regions. Culture is one of
the main expressions of democracy. It raises us up.
Culture teaches, inspires, heals wounds, soothes
and makes us grow.
In the national pages and in the regional editions, in
special supplements and original columns, the entire editorial staff will work to anticipate, experience,
interpret, support and promote this wonderful feast
for the senses.
Our readers can’t wait!
Le Soir is curious about all aspects of culture, as it
demonstrates every day. Some figures…
120 annual partnerships with cultural institutions.
Theatres, dance companies, circus troupes, museums, major exhibitions and festivals: the events that
make up the cultural year place their trust in us.
4 cultural pages every day. Le Soir is the ideal vehicle for culture, whether of the local variety or from
around the world. News, investigations, scoops,
in-depth portraits, discoveries and refined critiques
are all on the programme.
A cultural diary of 60 pages per week: ‘le MAD’.
Selectively and discerningly, our columnists offer
a weekly update on the key cultural activities to be
enjoyed.
4 book pages every week. Non-fiction, popular
novels, Prix Goncourt winners, paperback editions,
the world of publishing, children’s literature, comic
albums, surveys and interviews: books are part of
our life, and Le Soir champions books.
A distinguished weekly lifestyle publication:
Victoire. A magazine of as much interest to men as
women, presenting current trends in all their extravagance. From frivolous fashions to the latest buzz,
from the personalities of the moment to timeless
establishments, from quirky humour to social issues,
from luxury brands to ideas for outings, from travel
to the other side of the world to city trips close to
home… Victoire has the answer to every question.
Thematic cultural supplements. Theatre, the art
market, the Comic Strip Festival, Europalia, major
exhibitions: a number of one-off supplements offer
the latest information about the year’s highlight
events.
22 specialist journalists. Whether staff writers or
freelancers, they satisfy their curiosity in order to
satisfy yours. Our readers deserve the cream of the
crop, and our journalists are acknowledged experts
in their fields.
Le Soir’s own cultural events. The Prix Victor
Rossel is Belgium’s foremost literary prize. The Prix
Diagonale-Le Soir is the most richly endowed comic
strip award in Europe. The Nuits du Soir present the
finest of Belgian rock music every year. Finally, our
Drawing competition is Belgium’s largest.
675,000 readers per day. The leading publication in
the French-language press, Le Soir is contemporary,
pluralist, progressive, independent, irreverent, critical
and polemical. Values that resonate with the cultural
world.
Lesoir.be: 250,000 unique visitors per day.
Belgium’s leading French-language news site has
an important cultural section: news hot off the
presses, ‘le MAD’, some ten blogs with a strong reputation in the cultural sector, including the legendary
frontstage, thematic alerts and ultra-dynamic links
with our readers on Twitter and Facebook.
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FOUNDING INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS
OFFICIAL PARTNERS 1
The founding institutional partners are the source of Mons
Foundation 2015.
The official partners are associated to the whole Mons 2015
programme.
PROJECT PARTNERS 2
OFFICIAL SUPPLIERS
The project partners are associated to one or several events of Mons
2015 that they support more specifically.
The official suppliers bring a logistical support in the context
of a general Mons 2015 partnership.
1
OFFICIAL PARTNERS
ING Belgium is also presenting sponsor of Van Gogh in the Borinage.
The Mons 2015 enterprises club support the business pre-opening.
3
PROJECT SUPPLIERS
The consortium composed of the AkzoNobel Decorative Coatings Group,
the Franki firm, the architects A&G, the firms Gobert Matériaux and CIT Blaton, Knauf
and Wanty support the project of the House of Van Gogh in Cuesmes.
Lixon supports the Alhambra and Gobert Materiaux the project of Arne Quinze and
the Home and Aways.
Cellumat supports the Dominoes, the firm Repamine la Phrase and Café Liégeois
the opening party, The Café Europa and the Guinguette littéraire.
2
PROJECT PARTNERS
Holcim and EDF Luminus support the Museum pole.
Holcim is also invested in les 400 coups.
EDF Luminus brings its expertise to the Mons 2015 Foundation in terms
of sustainable development.
IDEA, IMBC, SWDE, ORES and SOWALFIN support the exhibition Atopolis.
Electrabel support the opening ceremony and the closing party.
EU Japan Fest takes part to the Tokyo Home and Away.
4
PROJECT MEDIA PARTNERS
The Mons-Borinage Television and Viva Cité support projects of the Grand Huit
and Grand Ouest alongside two projets from the open call.
France 3 Nord pas de Calais and TV5 Monde support the major exhibitions
of Mons 2015.
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INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS
PROJECT SUPPLIERS 3
The institutional partners collaborate with Mons 2015
in the context of their general missions.
The project suppliers bring their contribution by putting their know-how
and competences at disposal.
PROJECT MEDIA PARTNERS 4
The project media partners are associated to the communication
of specific events.
MEDIA PARTNERS
The media partners are associated to the communication of the event
in general.
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our next
meeting
MON. 13.10.2014 - 11:30
SAT. 06.12.14
Press conference of launching of Mons 2015 in Paris
Place: Délégation générale Wallonie-Bruxelles
Boulevard Saint-Germain, 274 (75007 Paris)
Inauguration of Wooden Installation by Arne Quinze
WED. 21.10.2014 - 10:30
Press conference of launching of Mons 2015
in Amsterdam
Place : Van Gogh Museum
Paulus Potterstraat, 7 (1071 Amsterdam)
THU. 30.10.2014 - 17:00
Press conference of launching of Mons 2015
in Cologne
Place: La Maison Belge
Cäcilienstrasse, 46 (50667 Cologne)
Press points are also planned in Milan, London
and Madrid
THU. 23.01.2015
Openings of Van Gogh at the Borinage and Mons
Superstar exhibitions
PRESS VISUALS
High definition pictures, property of the Fondation
Mons 2015, are at your disposal and can be downloaded on our website www.mons2015.eu – in the
page pro PRESSE (no pasword necessary).
Copyright mentions to be respected are mentioned
in the file’s after © .
WEBSITE : wwww.mons2015.eu
PRO SPACE : pro.mons2015.eu
FLICKR : www.flickr.com/photos/mons_2015
Contact administration
106, Rue de Nimy, 106 - 7000 Mons (B)
+32 (0)65 36 20 15 [email protected]
Branding + Graphic Design
Coast / www.coast-agency.com
David Bormans, Floriana Da Silva
Printing
IPM Printing
CONTACTS
CHARLINE CAUCHIE
Press officer (FR & international)
+32 (0)479 77 42 23
[email protected]
JOHAN VREYS
Press officer
+32 (0)474 63 66 41
[email protected]
BE CULTURE (SPCC)
Lore Lambrechts & Charlotte
Materne, Project Coordinators
Séverine Provost, General Manager
+32 (0)2 644 61 91
+32 (0)478 43 66 67
[email protected]
NB : This pressfile for the launch of Mons 2015 offers you a first and global
presentation of the year’s programme. it is not an exhaustif listing. In the following
year, different other texts will present you the programme in different ways.
If you have any questions please contact us: [email protected]
FONDATION MONS 2015
106 Rue de Nimy
7000 Mons (Belgique)
Executive editor: Yves Vasseur

Press kit Mons 2015

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